cresme
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Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blended from Late Latin crāmum (“cream”) and Ecclesiastical Latin chrisma, from Ancient Greek χρῖσμᾰ (khrîsma, “anointing”), from χρίω (khríō, “to anoint”).
Noun[edit]
cresme oblique singular, f (oblique plural cresmes, nominative singular cresme, nominative plural cresmes)
- cream (milk product)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: chresme
- French: crème (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: creme, crayme, creem, creeme, crem, creyme, kreme
- English: cream (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: crème
- → Swedish: kräm
References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.