Where does “크레파스” come from?
크레파스 (Korean) comes from Japanese クレパス, from French crayon, from French craie, from Latin Crēta, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
크레파스 (Korean): pastel, crayon
Definitions
- pastel, crayon
Ancestry of “크레파스”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | クレパス | pastel, crayon, colored pencil |
| 2 | French | crayon | pencil; pen; cock, dick, prick |
| 3 | French | craie | chalk |
| 4 | Latin | Crēta | chalk |
| 5 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 6 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 7 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |