bâtiment

French

noun

Definitions

building, edifice
(nautical) ship or boat
(nautical) warship

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bastiment inherited from Old French bastiment (fortification, act of building) derived from Latin bastiō borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (weave, sew).

Origin

Frankish

*bastijan

Gloss

weave, sew

Concept

Semantic Field

Clothing and grooming

Ontological Category

Action/Process

`Kanji`

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Emoji

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

bastio Latin
bastiō Latin
bastiment Old French
bastir Old French
bastiment Middle French
bastir Middle French
bastir Occitan
*bastijan Frankish
batiman Haitian, Haitian Creole
batimen Mauritian Creole