bâton
French
noun
Definitions
- stick
- (heraldiccharge) baton (as a charge)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French baston (truncheon, stick) inherited from Latin *bastō, bastum (stick) derived from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (lift, carry, support, bear).
Origin
Ancient Greek
βαστάζω
Gloss
lift, carry, support, bear
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
熊
Emoji
🛗
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Baton Rouge English
- baton English
- batonic English
- batonless English
- batonlike English
- patonki Finnish
- *basto Latin
- *basto, bastonis Latin
- *bastāre Latin
- *bastō Latin
- bastum Latin
- bastare Italian
- basto Italian
- bastonare Italian
- bastonata Italian
- bastoncello Italian
- bastone Italian
- capobastone Italian
- bâtonnage French
- bâtonner French
- bâtonnet French
- bâtonnier French
- батон Russian
- bastar Spanish, Castilian
- bastonada Spanish, Castilian
- bastonazo Spanish, Castilian
- bastonear Spanish, Castilian
- bastón Spanish, Castilian
- vástago Spanish, Castilian
- βαστάζειν Ancient Greek
- βαστάζω Ancient Greek
- batong Norwegian Bokmål
- bastar Portuguese
- bastão Portuguese
- batongbröd Swedish
- baton Polish
- batong Norwegian Nynorsk
- baston Middle English
- bast Old French
- baston Old French
- bastonet Old French
- bastono Esperanto
- bastar Catalan, Valencian
- bastar Galician
- baton Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μπαστούνι Greek (modern)
- ba toong Vietnamese
- baston Middle French
- باستون Ottoman Turkish
- baston Old Portuguese
- bastun Maltese
- bastun ta' San Ġuzepp Maltese
- bastuni Sicilian
- bastón Venetian
- baston Papiamentu
- bastun xno
- βαστῶ gkm
- baton Haitian, Haitian Creole
- baton Mauritian Creole
- baston Walloon
- baton Crimean Tatar
- baston Hiligaynon
- baton Seychellois Creole
- boutou Antillean Creole