crampon

See also: crampón

English

Crampons being used to climb ice.

Argent, a heraldic crampon gules.

Etymology

Borrowed from French crampon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæmpɑn/, /ˈkɹæmpən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æmpɑn

Noun

crampon (plural crampons)

1. An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.

   Synonyms: climbing iron, climber

2. (botany) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
3. (heraldry) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.

Translations

attachment to a shoe used for climbing or walking on ice

• Bashkir: тырнаҡ (tırnaq)
• Catalan: tac (ca) m, grampó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰爪

• Czech: mačka (cs)
• Finnish: jäärauta (fi)
• French: crampon (fr) m
• Galician: crampón (gl) m
• German: Steigeisen (de) n, Klettereisen n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἐγκεντρίς f (enkentrís)

• Icelandic: mannbroddar m pl
• Italian: rampone (it) m
• Japanese: アイゼン (ja) (aizen)
• Kannada: ಕೊಕ್ಕೆಯೆತ್ತಿಗೆ (kn) (kokkeyettige)
• Korean: 아이젠 (aijen)
• Macedonian: де́реза f (déreza)
• Norwegian: brodd
• Polish: rak (pl) m
• Portuguese: pitão (pt) m
• Russian: шип (ru) m (šip), ко́шки (ru) f (kóški) (usually plural, of mountain climbers)
• Serbo-Croatian: dereza f
• Slovak: mačky pl
• Spanish: taco (es) m, crampón (es)
• Swedish: stegjärn (sv) n, brodd (sv) c (ice cleat)
• Turkish: tırmanma demiri, krampon (tr)

See also

• overboot, overshoe

Verb

crampon (third-person singular simple present crampons, present participle cramponing or (uncommon, exclusively UK) cramponning, simple past and past participle cramponed or (uncommon, exclusively UK) cramponned)

1. To walk or climb using crampons.

Further reading

• crampon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French crampe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɑ̃.pɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Agen)):

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Noun

crampon m (plural crampons)

1. cleat, crampon (a protrusion on the bottom of a shoe for better traction)
2. spike
3. clinger, hanger-on

Descendants

• → English: crampon
• → Romanian: crampon
• → Spanish: crampón
• → Turkish: krampon

Further reading

• “crampon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French crampon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kramˈpon/

Noun

crampon n (plural crampoane)

1. (rail transport) square-headed spike used to fasten rails on sleepers / railroad ties
2. cleat; crampon (protrusion on the bottom of a shoe for better traction)
3. (botany) crampon (aerial root a climbing plant uses to affix itself to vertical support)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	crampon	cramponul	crampoane	crampoanele
genitive-dative	crampon	cramponului	crampoane	crampoanelor
vocative	cramponule		crampoanelor

Further reading

• “crampon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026