Where does “lapis” come from?

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

lapis (Tagalog): pencil

Definitions

  1. pencil

Ancestry of “lapis”, step by step

lapis traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish lápiz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishlápizpencil
2Italianlapispencil; sanguine
3Latinlapisa stone; a milestone; a boundary stone
4Proto-Italic*lapetsstone

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*lapis—

Words derived from “lapis”

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