Bastion is constructed of etymological building blocks that are very similar to those of
bastille
(a word now used as a general term for a prison, but probably best
known as the name of the Parisian fortress-turned-prison stormed by an
angry mob at the start of the French Revolution). The history of
bastion can be traced through Middle French to the Old Italian verb
bastire, which means "to build."
Bastille descends from the
Old Occitan verb
bastir, which also means "to build."
Bastir and
bastire are themselves of Germanic origin and akin to the Old High German word
besten, meaning "to patch."
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