abestos
Old French
Etymology
First known attestation 1125, borrowed from Latin asbestos[1].
Noun
abestos m (oblique plural abestos, nominative singular abestos, nominative plural abestos)
- asbestos (substance)
Descendants
- → English: asbestos
- French: asbeste
References
- Etymology and history of “asbeste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (abestos)