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baston

See also: Baston, bastón, and bašton

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English baston, from Old French baston. Doublet of baton.

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baston (plural bastons)

  1. (heraldry) Obsolete form of baton.
  2. (obsolete) A staff or cudgel.
  3. (obsolete) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
    • 1377, Statute of the Realm 1, Richard II, cap. 12‎[1]:
      Item, whereas divers people, at the suit of the party commanded to the prison of the Fleet, by judgment given in courts of our Lord the King, be oftentimes suffered to go at large by the warden of the prison, sometime by mainprise or by bail, and sometimes without any mainprise with a baston of the Fleet, and to go from thence into the country about their merchandises and other their business, and be there long out of prison nights and days, without their assent at whose suit they be judged, and without their gree thereof made, whereby a man cannot come to his right and recovery against such prisoners, to the great mischief and undoing of many people; It is ordained and assented, That from henceforth no warden of the Fleet shall suffer any prisoner there being by judgment at the suit of the party, to go out of prison by mainprise, bail, nor by baston, without making gree to the said parties of that whereof they were judged, unless it be by writ or other commandment of the King, upon pain to lose his office, and the keeping of the said prison.
    • 1562, Statute of the Realm 5, Elizabeth I, cap. 23‎[2]:
      When any person or persons shall yield his or their body or bodies to the hands of the sheriff or other officer, upon any of the said writs of capias, that then the same party or parties that shall so yield themselves, shall remain in prison and custody of the said sheriff or other officer, without bail, baston or mainprize, in such like manner and form, to all intents and purposes, as he or they should or ought to have done, if he or they had been apprehended and taken upon the said writ of excommunicato capiendo.
    • 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter of Words and Terms‎[3]:
      Baston, is a French Word signifying a Staff or Club, and by the Statures of our Realm, denotes one of the Wardens of the Fleet's Servants or Officers, that attendeth the King's Court with a painted Staff, for the taking into Custody such as are committed by the Court.
    • 1876, Herbert Mozley, George Whiteley, A Concise Dictionary of Law‎[4]:
      Baston (Bâton). A French word signifying a staff or club. In the statutes it sometimes denotes an officer in attendance upon the king's court with a painted staff, for the taking into custody persons committed by the court.

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  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [5]

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Esperanto

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baston

  1. accusative singular of basto

French

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baston f (plural bastons)

  1. (colloquial) scrap, fight

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Hiligaynon

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Etymology

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From Spanish bastón.

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bastón

  1. cane
  2. stick

Maranao

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Etymology

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From Spanish bastón.

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baston

  1. cane
  2. club, stick

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French baston.

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  • IPA(key): /basˈtuːn/, /ˈbastun/

Noun

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baston (plural bastons) (rare)

  1. A staff, or baton; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object.
  2. Commuting or ending of one's imprisonment by a warden.
  3. A line or group of lines in a poetic composition.
  4. A strike or slap with a staff or baton.
  5. A baton in heraldry.

Descendants

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  • English: baston
  • Scots: baston

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French baston.

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baston m (plural bastons)

  1. stick, truncheon

Old French

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Etymology

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From Late Latin bastum.

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baston oblique singular, m (oblique plural bastons, nominative singular bastons, nominative plural baston)

  1. stick, truncheon

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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish bastón and Portuguese bastão.

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baston

  1. stick

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian bastone.

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baston n (plural bastoane)

  1. walking stick

Declension

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Declension of baston
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative baston bastonul bastoane bastoanele
genitive-dative baston bastonului bastoane bastoanelor
vocative bastonule bastoanelor

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish bastón, from Old French baston, probably from Vulgar Latin *bastō, *bastōnis. Doublet of baton.

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bastón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. cane; staff; walking stick
    Synonym: tungkod
  2. (colloquial) act of hitting someone with a cane
  3. a style of trouser cut in which the legs gradually narrow at the lower end

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Adjective

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bastón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. with the legs tapering down the lower end (of trousers)

Further reading

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  • “baston”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish باستون (baston), from Venetan bastón.

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  • IPA(key): [bɑsˈton]
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ton
  • Audio:(file)

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baston (definite accusative bastonu, plural bastonlar)

  1. cane, walking stick

Declension

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Declension of baston
singular plural
nominative baston bastonlar
definite accusative bastonu bastonları
dative bastona bastonlara
locative bastonda bastonlarda
ablative bastondan bastonlardan
genitive bastonun bastonların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular bastonum bastonlarım
2nd singular bastonun bastonların
3rd singular bastonu bastonları
1st plural bastonumuz bastonlarımız
2nd plural bastonunuz bastonlarınız
3rd plural bastonları bastonları
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular bastonumu bastonlarımı
2nd singular bastonunu bastonlarını
3rd singular bastonunu bastonlarını
1st plural bastonumuzu bastonlarımızı
2nd plural bastonunuzu bastonlarınızı
3rd plural bastonlarını bastonlarını
dative
singular plural
1st singular bastonuma bastonlarıma
2nd singular bastonuna bastonlarına
3rd singular bastonuna bastonlarına
1st plural bastonumuza bastonlarımıza
2nd plural bastonunuza bastonlarınıza
3rd plural bastonlarına bastonlarına
locative
singular plural
1st singular bastonumda bastonlarımda
2nd singular bastonunda bastonlarında
3rd singular bastonunda bastonlarında
1st plural bastonumuzda bastonlarımızda
2nd plural bastonunuzda bastonlarınızda
3rd plural bastonlarında bastonlarında
ablative
singular plural
1st singular bastonumdan bastonlarımdan
2nd singular bastonundan bastonlarından
3rd singular bastonundan bastonlarından
1st plural bastonumuzdan bastonlarımızdan
2nd plural bastonunuzdan bastonlarınızdan
3rd plural bastonlarından bastonlarından
genitive
singular plural
1st singular bastonumun bastonlarımın
2nd singular bastonunun bastonlarının
3rd singular bastonunun bastonlarının
1st plural bastonumuzun bastonlarımızın
2nd plural bastonunuzun bastonlarınızın
3rd plural bastonlarının bastonlarının

Venetan

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baston m (plural bastoni) (Alternative plural: bastuni)

  1. stick, club, baton

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Walloon

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Etymology

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From Old French baston, probably from a Vulgar Latin *basto, bastonis, itself a modification of Late Latin bastum, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastō, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō).

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baston m

  1. stick
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