noun, feminine/bɔʁn/plural: bornes
bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area; territorial boundary marker; territorial or geographical border; milestone such as those alongside a roadway; a kilometre; a click
“dépasser les bornes” — cross the mark
Inherited from Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.