bitume

From Middle French bitume. Doublet of bitumen.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈtjuːm/, /bɪˈtuːm/

bitume (uncountable)

1. (poetic, obsolete) bitumen
   • 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:14, page 21:

     Make thee an arke of timber planke: cabinets ſhalt thou make in the arke, and ſhalt pitch it within, and without with bitume.

• “bitume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• umbite

• IPA^(key): /bi.tym/

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Borrowed from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of béton.

bitume m (plural bitumes)

1. bitumen, asphalt, tar
   • 1995, “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend ?”, in Paris sous les bombes, performed by Suprême NTM:

     Les années passent, pourtant tout est toujours à sa place / Plus de bitume donc encore moins d'espace

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (slang) street, sidewalk

• bitumer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bitume

1. inflection of bitumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

Borrowed from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of beton.

• IPA^(key): /biˈtu.me/
• Rhymes: -ume
• Hyphenation: bi‧tù‧me

bitume m (usually uncountable, plural bitumi)

1. bitumen, tar

   Synonym: asfalto

• bitume in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• bitume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana