Where does “lapis” come from?

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

lapis (Italian): pencil; sanguine

Definitions

  1. pencil; sanguine

Ancestry of “lapis”, step by step

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

Words derived from “lapis”

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