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creion
pencil /kreˈjon/
noun#5354 most common
Also: crayon (colored pencil)
Example sentences
Acesta este un creion.
This is a pencil.
Am un creion roșu în ghiozdan.
I have a red pencil in my backpack.
Poți să-mi împrumuți creionul tău?
Can you lend me your pencil?
Desenul a fost făcut cu creionul, nu cu cerneală.
The drawing was made with pencil, not with ink.
Artistul a schițat portretul cu un creion de cărbune înainte de a picta.
The artist sketched the portrait with a charcoal pencil before painting.
Deși folosea rareori cerneala, prefera să-și noteze ideile inițiale în creion, ca să le poată șterge și corecta cu ușurință.
Although he rarely used ink, he preferred to jot down his initial ideas in pencil, so he could erase and correct them easily.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | creion / creionul | creioane / creioanele |
| Genitive | creion / creionului | creioane / creioanelor |
| Accusative | creion / creionul | creioane / creioanele |
| Vocative | creionule | creioanelor |
Word family
creionpencil
creioanepencils (plural)
a creionato sketch, to outline in pencil
creionaresketch, rough outline
creionatsketched, penciled in
Etymology
Creion comes from French crayon, which itself derives from craie, meaning chalk. The French word traces back to Latin creta, chalk or clay, a term linked to the island of Crete as a source of fine white earth. Romanian borrowed the French word directly in the 19th century, during the wave of French-influenced modernization of the language.
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