Where does “lápis” come from?

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

lápis (Portuguese): pencil

Definitions

  1. pencil

Ancestry of “lápis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianlapispencil; sanguine
2Latinlapisa stone; a milestone; a boundary stone
3Proto-Italic*lapetsstone

Words derived from “lápis”

Every word from Proto-Italic *lapets →Every word from Latin lapis →Every word from Italian lapis →