pensil

pensil (plural pensils)

1. Obsolete form of pencil.

Borrowed from English pencil or Dutch penseel, from Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛnsɪl]
• Hyphenation: pèn‧sil

pènsil (plural pensil-pensil, first-person possessive pensilku, second-person possessive pensilmu, third-person possessive pensilnya)

1. pencil

   Synonym: potlot

• pinsil
• pensel (Standard Malay)

• “pensil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From English pencil or Tok Pisin pensil.

pensil

1. pencil

1. Nonstandard spelling of pensel.

Borrowed from Latin pensilis.

• IPA^(key): /penˈsil/ [pẽnˈsil]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: pen‧sil

pensil (plural pensiles)

1. hanging

pensil m (plural pensiles)

1. (literary) pleasant garden

• “pensil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From English pencil.

pensil

1. pencil

• pensel

Borrowed from English pencil, from Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnsɪl/

pensil m (plural pensiliau or pensilau or pensilion)

1. pencil

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pensil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies