billon

Borrowed from French billon, from Old French bille (“stick of wood”).

billon (countable and uncountable, plural billons)

1. Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.

• Bollin, LOLBin, no-bill

From Old French bille (“stick of wood”), from Medieval Latin billa, billia, from Gaulish *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”).

• IPA^(key): /bi.jɔ̃/

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billon m (plural billons)

1. A log or hunk of wood
2. billon
3. ridge (in a ploughed field)

• billonnage
• billonner

• → Catalan: billó
• → English: billon
• → Portuguese: bilhão

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