béton

See also: beton, Beton, and betón

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.tɔ̃/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin bitumen.

Noun

béton m (plural bétons)

1. concrete

Descendants

• Estonian: betoon
• Finnish: betoni
• German: Beton m
• Greek: μπετόν n (betón)
• Hungarian: beton
• Luxembourgish: Bëtong m
• Macedonian: бетон m (beton)
• Norwegian Bokmål: betong m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: betong m
• Romanian: beton n
• Russian: бетон m (beton)
• Serbo-Croatian: beton m / бетон m
• Swedish: betong c
• Vietnamese: bê tông

Etymology 2

Verlan form of tomber (“to fall, to drop”)

Verb

béton

1. (Verlan, back slang) to drop

Usage notes

This verb is only used in the infinitive, and almost exclusively as part of the phrase laisser béton, which can be translated as “drop it” or “forget it”

Anagrams

• bonté

Further reading

• “béton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.