crayón
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French crayon, from craie (“chalk”). Doublet of crión.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: cra‧yón
Noun edit
crayón m (plural crayones)
- (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay) crayon
- Synonyms: (Colombia, Venezuela, Canary Islands) creyón, (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) crayola, (Spain) cera, (Spain) lápiz de cera
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “crayón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014