crayon
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: krāʹŏn
- (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹæn/, [ˈkɹeən][1]
Audio (US) (file)
- (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹaʊn/, [ˈkɹɛɔn], [ˈkɹæɔn][1]
- Rhymes: -eɪɒn, -eɪən, -æn, -aʊn
Noun edit
crayon (plural crayons)
- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- Hyponym: Conté
- A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
- Synonyms: pencil crayon (Canada), colouring pencil (UK)
- 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
- Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
- (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
- 1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187:
- But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
- (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
colored chalk or wax
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colored pencil
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Verb edit
crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.
References edit
- “crayon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crayon m (plural crayons)
Descendants edit
- → English: crayon
- → Esperanto: krajono
- → German: Crayon
- → Greek: κραγιόν (kragión)
- → Moore: keryõ
- → Romanian: creion
- → Spanish: crayón, clarión
Further reading edit
- “crayon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.