Where does “lápiz” come from?

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

lápiz (Spanish): pencil

Definitions

  1. pencil

Ancestry of “lápiz”, step by step

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

Words derived from “lápiz”

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