baston

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Old French baston

Noun [edit]

baston (plural bastons)

  1. (heraldry) Obsolete form of baton.
  2. (obsolete) A staff or cudgel.
    • Holland
      To fight with blunt bastons.
  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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mozley & W to this entry?)

References [edit]

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams [edit]


Esperanto [edit]

Noun [edit]

baston

  1. accusative singular of basto

French [edit]

Noun [edit]

baston f (plural bastons)

  1. (colloquial) scrap, fight

Hiligaynon [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Spanish bastón.

Noun [edit]

bastón

  1. cane
  2. stick

Middle French [edit]

Noun [edit]

baston m (plural bastons)

  1. stick, truncheon

Old French [edit]

Noun [edit]

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

  1. stick, truncheon

Descendants [edit]


Turkish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Italian bastone or Venetian bastòn.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [bɑsˈton]
  • Hyphenation: bas‧ton

Noun [edit]

baston (definite accusative bastonu, plural bastonlar)

  1. cane, walking stick

Declension [edit]


Venetian [edit]

Noun [edit]

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

  1. stick, club, baton

Derived terms [edit]


Walloon [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old French baston, probably from a Vulgar Latin *basto, bastonis, itself a modification of Late Latin bastun, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastāre, from Ancient Greek βαστάζειν.

Noun [edit]

baston m

  1. stick