battre
French
verb
Definitions
- to beat; to defeat
- to beat up
- (pronominal) to fight
- (cooking) to whisk or whip eggs
- (agriculture) to thresh
- (cards) to shuffle
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French battre inherited from Old French batre (beat) inherited from Latin battere, battuō (beat, strike, fight, hit, pound, I beat, I fight).
Origin
Latin
battuō
Gloss
beat, strike, fight, hit, pound, I beat, I fight
Concept
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- battement English
- batter English
- *abbatere Latin
- *abbatō Latin
- *bataclum Latin
- battere Latin
- battetura Latin
- battuere Latin
- battuō Latin
- battālia Latin
- battō Latin
- battō, battere, batto Latin
- Debatte German
- debattieren German
- battage Italian
- battere Italian
- batteria Italian
- battibile Italian
- batticuore Italian
- battimento Italian
- battito Italian
- battitoia Italian
- battitoio Italian
- battitore Italian
- battitura Italian
- controbattere Italian
- ribattere Italian
- sbattere Italian
- battable French
- battage French
- battement French
- batteur French
- batteuse French
- battoir French
- battue French
- débattable French
- débattre French
- imbattable French
- rebattre French
- batalla Spanish, Castilian
- batir Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰedʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- debattere Norwegian Bokmål
- debattere Norwegian Nynorsk
- baterie Old French
- bateure Old French
- batre Old French
- batte Old French
- albati Esperanto
- bati Esperanto
- batilo Esperanto
- bato Esperanto
- piedbati Esperanto
- bate Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bătător Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- batar Ido
- battre Norman
- battre Middle French
- debatre Middle French
- bater Old Portuguese
- strãbat Aromanian
- bati Friulian
- batre Old Occitan
- bàtar Venetian
- bàtte Ligurian
- batar Dalmatian
- bot Dalmatian
- bate Walloon
- baitre Bourguignon
- bāter Emilian