béton

See also: beton, Beton, and betón

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.tɔ̃/

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French betun, from Vulgar Latin *bittūmen, from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of bitume, a borrowing from Latin.

Noun

béton m (plural bétons)

1. concrete

Derived terms

• béton armé
• bloc de béton
• en béton

Descendants

Descendants

• → Dutch: beton
• → Estonian: betoon
• → Finnish: betoni
• → German: Beton m
• → Greek: μπετόν n (betón)
• → Esperanto: betono
• → Hungarian: beton
• → Luxembourgish: Bëtong m
• → Macedonian: бетон m (beton)
• → Malagasy: betro
• Norwegian Bokmål: betong m
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: betong m
• → Portuguese: betão m
• → Romanian: beton n
• → Russian: бетон m (beton)
  • → Armenian: բետոն (beton)
  • → Georgian: ბეტონი (beṭoni)
  • → Yakut: бетон (beton)
• Serbo-Croatian: beton m / бетон m
• → Swedish: betong c
• → Turkish: beton
• → Vietnamese: bê tông

Etymology 2

Verlan form of tomber (“to fall, to drop”).

Verb

béton

1. (Verlan) to drop

Usage notes

• This verb is only used in the infinitive, and almost exclusively as part of the phrase laisse béton, which can be translated as “drop it” or “forget it”.

Further reading

• “béton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bonté