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bouton.

button

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/bu.tɔ̃/

  1. button

    masculine

  2. bud

    masculine

  3. pimple, spot, zit

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited 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”). By surface analysis, bouter (“to push”) + -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.

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