bâton

bâton (plural bâtons)

1. Alternative form of baton.

• Botan, tabon

Inherited from Vulgar Latin bastōnem.

bâton m (plural bâtons) (ORB, broad)

1. stick

• bâton in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• bâton in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Old French baston, probably from a Vulgar Latin bastōnem, itself a modification of Late Latin bastum, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastāre, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō). Compare Italian bastone.

• IPA^(key): /ba.tɔ̃/ ~ /bɑ.tɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

bâton m (plural bâtons)

1. stick
2. (heraldry) baton (as a charge)

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

• nabot