Noun: bidon
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bidon |
| Plural m | bidons |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bidon
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French bidon (“small portable container, sealed and made of wood or metal”), from Old Norse bida, *biða (“container, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *bidōn, *bidjan (“tub, vessel, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“pot, bucket, barrel”), from *bʰeydʰ- (“to weave, bind”).
2. Cognate with Icelandic biða (“milkbucket”), Norwegian bide (“churn”), Norwegian bidne (“vessel”), Latin fidēlia (“clay or glass vessel”). See: Icelandic Nouns '
biða', Latin Nouns '
fidēlia'.
Verbs referencing "bidon"
English Nouns
bidon, Dutch Nouns
bidon, Romanian Nouns
bidon, Italian Nouns
bidone, Bulgarian Nouns
бидон, Russian Nouns
бидон.
Translations