Translation
pencil
Word origin
From French crayon, a diminutive of craie ('chalk'), which goes back to Latin creta. The first crayons were chalk, and the graphite pencil inherited the name.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- craie
- English cognates
- crayon, cretaceous
Examples
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The child drew a house with a red pencil.
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Do you have a pencil for me?
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I wrote the letter in pencil, not in pen.
Note the stress: kra-JO-no, on the second-to-last syllable like every Esperanto word, not on the first as in English "crayon". And it means a pencil, not a wax crayon - the wax sort is a vakskrajono if you need to be precise.
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