crayon
French
noun
Definitions
- pencil
- (colloquial) pen
Etymology
Suffix from French craie (chalk) derived from Latin crēta (chalk, clay).
Origin
Latin
crēta
Gloss
chalk, clay
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🧱
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- craye English
- crayon English
- crayonist English
- crayonlike English
- cretaceous English
- cretify English
- creta Latin
- cretaceus Latin
- crēta Latin
- Kreide German
- kréta Hungarian
- creta Italian
- craie French
- crayeux French
- crayonner French
- clarión Spanish, Castilian
- crayón Spanish, Castilian
- creta Spanish, Castilian
- crión Spanish, Castilian
- kritt Norwegian Bokmål
- クレパス Japanese
- クレヨン Japanese
- feltkrajono Esperanto
- globkrajono Esperanto
- krajono Esperanto
- creta Catalan, Valencian
- creta Galician
- creion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- κραγιόν Greek (modern)
- krayon Cebuano
- crijt Middle Dutch
- craie Norman
- креда Bulgarian
- krīde Middle High German
- krite Middle Low German
- 크레용 Korean
- 크레파스 Korean
- krayon papye Mauritian Creole
- kreyon Mauritian Creole
- kreyon kouler Mauritian Creole