beton
Polish
noun
Definitions
- concrete
- (colloquial) the most conservative (i.e., resistant to change) fraction within an organization
Etymology
Borrowed from French béton (concrete) derived from Latin bitūmen (asphalt, bitumen, tar, mineral pitch).
Origin
Latin
bitūmen
Gloss
asphalt, bitumen, tar, mineral pitch
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bitumen English
- betoni Finnish
- bitumen Latin
- bituminosus Latin
- bitūmen Latin
- Beton German
- Bitumen German
- beton Italian
- bitume Italian
- beton Dutch, Flemish
- bitume French
- béton French
- bétonnage French
- bétonner French
- бето́н Russian
- бетон Russian
- би́тум Russian
- битум Russian
- betún Spanish, Castilian
- betong Norwegian Bokmål
- betão Portuguese
- betong Swedish
- ベトン Japanese
- betonować Polish
- betonowy Polish
- betong Norwegian Nynorsk
- beton Danish
- beton Czech
- beton Serbo-Croatian
- бетон Serbo-Croatian
- beton Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- بتن Persian
- μπετόν Greek (modern)
- bitume Middle Dutch
- beton Turkish
- bê tông Vietnamese
- Bëtong Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- betoon Estonian
- betume Old Portuguese
- бетон Macedonian
- betón Slovak
- beton Slovene
- បេតុង Central Khmer
- beton Crimean Tatar
- *bitu Gaulish
- betua Gaulish
- betōng Silesian