Noun: crayon
| Singular | crayon |
| Plural | crayons |
Sample Sentences
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Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. [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:]
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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. [1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187:]
Nouns inflected like crayon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin crēta
3. French craie
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
5. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
6. Latin -ō
7. Frankishinflu.
8. Old French -on
9. Middle French -on
10. French -on
11. French crayonbor.
12. English crayon
13. Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus. See: French Nouns '
crayon', Latin Nouns '
crēta'.
Verbs referencing "crayon"
Spanish Nouns
clarión.