Where does “llapis” come from?

llapis (Catalan) comes from Latin lapis, from Proto-Italic *lapets — stone.

llapis (Catalan): pencil

Definitions

  1. pencil

Ancestry of “llapis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlapisa stone; a milestone; a boundary stone
2Proto-Italic*lapetsstone
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