borne.
bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
Meaning & usage
bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
territorial boundary marker
territorial or geographical border
milestone such as those alongside a roadway
a kilometre; a click
mark
dépasser les bornes
limit of a list or of an interval
Prenez un nombre entre 0 et 100 (bornes incluses)
les lettres comprises entre A et D (bornes incluses)
machine
borne libre service
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.
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