arton : nmarg. "Arton" designates the pain in XNUMXth century slang. The word has survived in the Lyonnais and Savoyard dialects. This word comes from the Greek arts : bread. As "artos" left no trace in everyday French, it is likely that it originally entered slang through the speaking of clerics and schoolchildren.
We also say " larton By inclusion of the article.
Among the words of the same origin, we can cite arty which also meant "bread", the war of the artie and the cree (meat, Greek kreas), being the exercise of begging. These expressions keep the memory of the Latin name artocreas, word borrowed from Greek and designating small pasta, used in the early days of Christianity as royalties or donations inspired by piety. They were cited by Pliny in the XNUMXst century AD. It is a Greek specialty, as logically designated by a Greek term as the hamburgers ou hot dogs take their names from the American language.