bâtiment

Inherited from Middle French bastiment, from Old French bastiment (“act of building, fortification”), from bastir (“to build, make; to sew”), from Medieval Latin bastiō (“to build, construct; to weave, sew”), borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ti.mɑ̃/, /bɑ.ti.mɑ̃/

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bâtiment m (plural bâtiments)

1. building, edifice
2. (nautical) ship or boat
3. (nautical, military) warship

• (watercraft): navire, bateau
• (warship): navire, vaisseau

• bâtiment précieux

• bâtir

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