abestos

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Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

First known attestation 1125, borrowed from Latin asbestos.^[1]

Noun[edit]

abestos oblique singular, m (oblique plural abestos, nominative singular abestos, nominative plural abestos)

asbestos (substance)

Descendants[edit]

→ English: asbestos
French: asbeste

References[edit]

^ Etymology and history of “asbeste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (abestos)

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