bouton
See also: Bouton
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bouton.
Noun
bouton (plural boutons)
- A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon
Derived terms
- interbouton
- superbouton
Anagrams
- unboot
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From French bouton.
Noun
bouton
- button
- rash
French
Etymology
From Middle French bouton, boton, from Old French bouton, boton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Frankish *bautō (“that which pushes up, bump, knob”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to beat, push”); equivalent to bouter + -on. Cognate with Old High German bōzo (“bundle, flaxbundle”), Old Saxon bōto (“bunch or bundle of flaxs”). Compare Italian bottone, Spanish botón, which are borrowings of the French word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.tɔ̃/
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Noun
bouton m (plural boutons)
- button
- (botany) bud
- (pathology, dermatology) pimple, spot, zit
Derived terms
- bouton d'or
- bouton de fièvre
Descendants
- Antillean Creole: bouton
- → Bulgarian: бутон (buton)
- → English: bouton
- → Khmer: ប៊ូតុង (buutong)
- → Malagasy: bokotra
- → Romanian: buton
- → Russian: бутон (buton)
- → Turkish: buton
Further reading
- “bouton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “bouton” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French boton, from Late Latin *bottōnem, of Germanic origin.
Noun
bouton m (plural boutons)
- (Jersey) button