# crayon
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: krāʹŏn
** (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒ̃/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ən/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (US) IPA: /ˈkɹeɪ.ɑn/; also /ˈkɹeɪ.ɔn/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
*** Audio (Southern California):(file)
*** Audio (New York City):(file)
* (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA: /ˈkɹæn/, [ˈkɹeən]
** Audio (US):(file)
* (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA: /ˈkɹaʊn/, [ˈkɹɛɔn], [ˈkɹæɔn]
** Audio (Virginia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪɒn, -eɪən, -æn, -aʊn

### Noun

crayon (plural crayons)
* A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
    Hyponym: Conté
* A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
    Synonyms: pencil crayon (Canada), colouring pencil (UK)
** 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
* (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
** 1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187:But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
* (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

#### Derived terms

* crayon board
* crayon eater
* crayonist
* crayon license
* crayonlike
* meat crayon
* not the sharpest crayon in the box
* porte-crayon
* sauce crayon

#### Related terms

* cretaceous

#### Translations
### Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)
* (ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.

#### Derived terms

* uncrayoned

### References

* “crayon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* 1 2 3 Harvard Dialect Survey

### Further reading

* crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* acyron

## French
### Etymology

From craie (“chalk”) +‎ -on (diminutive), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʁɛ.jɔ̃/ ~ /kʁe.jɔ̃/
** Audio:(file)
* (Louisiana) IPA: /kɾe.jɔ̃/, /kɾi.jɔ̃/
* Rhymes: -ɔ̃
* Homophone: crayons

### Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)
* pencil
* (colloquial) pen (writing utensil)
    Synonyms: plume f (Louisiana), stylo m
* (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
* (Louisiana) crayon
    Synonym: pastel m
* (Louisiana) needlefish
    Synonym: aiguille f (Louisiana)

#### Hyponyms

* crayon B
* crayon F
* crayon H
* crayon HB

#### Derived terms

* affile-crayon
* aiguise-crayon
* avoir de la mine dans le crayon
* chacot à crayon
* crayolor
* crayon à bille
* crayon à mine
* crayon à papier
* crayon aquarellable
* crayon de bois
* crayon de cire
* crayon de couleur
* crayon de mine
* crayon de papier
* crayon de plomb
* crayon d’ardoise
* crayon fusain
* crayon gris
* crayon hémostatique
* crayon khôl
* crayon noir
* crayon optique
* crayon ordinaire
* crayon pastel
* crayon-bois
* crayon-feutre
* crayon-mine
* crayonnage
* crayonné
* crayonner
* crayonneur
* crayonneux
* crayonniste
* décrayonnage
* décrayonner
* jupe crayon
* plante-crayon
* porte-crayon
* poser son crayon
* recrayonner
* taille-crayon
* tailler les crayons
* tailler un crayon
* trois-crayons

#### Related terms

* craie
* crayer
* crayère
* crayeux

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: kreyon
* Louisiana Creole: kréyon
* → Bambara: kiriyon
* → English: crayon
* → Esperanto: krajono
* → German: Crayon
* → Japanese: クレヨン (kureyon)
* → Greek: κραγιόν (kragión)
* → Moore: keryõ
* → Romanian: creion
* → Spanish: crayón, clarión, crión

### Further reading

* “crayon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

### Anagrams

* Carnoy, caryon, Cayron, Cornay, Cronay, Cyrano, Roynac