Where does “aiguise-crayon” come from?
aiguise-crayon (French) comes from French crayon, from French craie, from Latin Crēta, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
aiguise-crayon (French): pencil sharpener
Definitions
- pencil sharpener
Ancestry of “aiguise-crayon”, step by step
aiguise-crayon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French crayon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | crayon | pencil; pen; cock, dick, prick |
| 2 | French | craie | chalk |
| 3 | Latin | Crēta | chalk |
| 4 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 5 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via French aiguiser
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | aiguiser | to sharpen; to hone; to whet |
| 2 | Old French | aguisier | to sharpen |
| 3 | Latin | acūtiō | — |
| 4 | Latin | acūtus | sharpened, made sharp, sharp, having been sharpened |
| 5 | Latin | acuō | to make pointed, sharpen, whet |
| 6 | Latin | acus | a needle, a pin; bodkin; bran, awn, chaff |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | akus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eḱus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eḱ- | sharp |