cress

English

Cress

Etymology

From Middle English cresse, crasse, from Old English cressa, cærse (“cress”), from Proto-West Germanic *krassjō, from Proto-Germanic *krasjô (“cress”). Cognate with West Frisian kers (“cress”), Dutch kers (“cress”), German Kresse (“cress”), Danish karse (“cress”), Swedish krasse (“cress”), Icelandic krassi (“cress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

cress (countable and uncountable, plural cresses)

1. (plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

Derived terms

terms derived from cress (noun)

• alpine rock cress
• bitter-cress
• bittercress (Barbarea vulgaris)
• bulbous cress
• cedar glade cress
• garden cress
• hoary bitter cress
• hoary cress
• Indian cress
• lamb's cress
• land cress
• marsh cress
• monks cress
• mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
• northern rock cress
• not worth a cress
• peppercress
• rockcress
• rocketcress (Barbarea vulgaris)
• Spanish cress
• St. Barbara's cress
• stone cress
• thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
• town cress
• wart cress
• water-cress
• watercress
• winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris)

 

Translations

a plant

• Arabic: حُرْف‎ (ar) m (ḥurf), رَشَاد‎ m pl (rašād)
• Armenian: կոտեմ (hy) (kotem)

  Middle Armenian: կոտեմ (kotem)

• Bulgarian: кресо́н (kresón)
• Danish: karse
• Esperanto: kreso
• Estonian: kress
• Finnish: krassi (fi)
• French: cresson (fr) m
• Galician: berro (gl) m, brizo (gl) m
• Georgian: წიწმატი (c̣ic̣maṭi)
• German: Kresse (de) f
• Greek: κάρδαμο (el) n (kárdamo)
• Hungarian: zsázsa (hu)
• Hunsrik: Kress f
• Icelandic: karsi (is) m, krassi m
• Italian: crescione m
• Luxembourgish: Cresson m
• Maori: kirihi
• Korean: 물냉이 (mullaeng'i)
• Latin: nasturtium n
• Polish: rzeżucha (pl) f
• Portuguese: agrião (pt) m
• Romanian: creson (ro) n, hreniță (ro) f
• Russian: кресс (ru) m (kress), кресс-сала́т (ru) m (kress-salát)
• Spanish: mastuerzo (es), berro (es), nasturcio m
• Swedish: krasse (sv)
• Thai: เทียนแดง (th) (tian-daeng)
• Turkish: tere (tr)
• Vietnamese: cải xoong
• Welsh: berwr

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Etymology

Akin to Italian crescere, from Latin.

Verb

cress

1. to grow

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Alternative forms

• criss

Etymology

From Middle English cross, from Old English cros.

Noun

cress

1. cross

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 32