different between seton vs jeton

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French séton

Noun

seton (plural setons)

1. (medicine, agriculture) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed.

Translations

Anagrams

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, onset, steno, steno-, stone, tones

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French jeton.

Noun

jeton (plural jetons)

1. A counter or token.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 490:

     The girl took a jeton and was given a fresh towel which she draped over her arm like a waiter.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jeton.

Noun

jeton c (singular definite jetonen, plural indefinite jetoner)

1. game piece, game token

Declension

References

• “jeton” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Noun

jeton

1. accusative singular of jeto

French

Etymology

From jeter +? -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: jetons

Noun

jeton m (plural jetons)

1. A game chip or token, a counter
2. (Africa) A coin
3. A Scrabble tile.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: jeton
• ? Italian: gettone
• ? Louisiana Creole French: jetnée
• ? Persian: ????? (žeton)
• ? Polish: ?eton
• ? Romanian: jeton
• ? Russian: ????? (žeton)
• ? Hebrew: ?'????? (jiton)

Further reading

• “jeton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French jeton

Noun

jeton n (plural jetoane)

1. token

Declension