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crayon

See also: Crayon and crayón

English

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Wax crayons

Etymology

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Latin crēta
French craie
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ō
Frankishinflu.
Old French -on
Middle French -on
French -on
French crayonbor.
English crayon

    Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) +‎ -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.

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    Noun

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    crayon (plural crayons)

    1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
      Hyponym: Conté
    2. (obsolete) 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.
    3. (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.
    4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

    Usage notes

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    • The /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɑn/ (in the US CRAY-ahn, in dialects with the cot-caught merger also CRAY-awn) and /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɔn/ (in the US CRAY-awn) pronunciations are used by 83% of Americans. The monosyllabic /kɹæn/ [kɹɛə̯n ~ kɹeə̯n] (cran) pronunciation is used by 14%. 1.46% pronounce it the same way as "crown" (/kɹaʊ̯n/), and 1.24% use other pronunciations (one of them /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ən/ CRAY-uhn).[3]

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    Verb

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    crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or (rare) crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or (rare) crayonned)

    1. (ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.

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    References

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    • “crayon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
    1. ^ [1] Merriam-Webster Dictionary
    2. ^ [2] Longman Dictionary
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Harvard Dialect Survey

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    French

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    Des crayons de plomb ― Some lead pencils

    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Latin crēta
    French craie
    Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
    Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
    Latin -ō
    Frankishinflu.
    Old French -on
    Middle French -on
    French -on
    French crayon

      From craie (“chalk”) +‎ -on (diminutive suffix), derived from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”).

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      crayon m (plural crayons)

      1. pencil
      2. (colloquial) pen (writing utensil)
        Synonyms: plume (Louisiana), stylo
      3. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick
        Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
      4. (Louisiana) crayon
        Synonym: pastel
      5. (Louisiana) needlefish
        Synonym: aiguille (Louisiana)

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