pavement

Borrowed from Middle French pavement, from Old French pavement, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”), from pavire (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪvmənt/

pavement (usually uncountable, plural pavements)

1. Any paved floor.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

2. (chiefly Britain) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess‎:

     Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

3. (US) Any paved exterior surface, as of a road or sidewalk.
   • 1991, Airpower Journal 1911 (page 45)

     The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.

4. The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.

• (footpath): sidewalk (UK), footpath, footway, platform
• (surface of road): roadway (US), road surface (US); paving

• hit the pavement
• pavement cafe
• pavement pizza
• pound the pavement

• footpath
• sidewalk
• pavement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old French pavement, from the verb paver +‎ -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

• IPA^(key): /pav.mɑ̃/

pavement m (plural pavements)

1. paving
2. tiled floor

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

paver +‎ -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

pavement m (oblique plural pavemenz or pavementz, nominative singular pavemenz or pavementz, nominative plural pavement)

1. a paved room

• English: pavement
• French: pavement