cress

English

Cress

Etymology 1

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 (Arabis alpina)
• Austrian cress (Rorippa austriaca)
• bastard cress (Lepidium campestre, Thlaspi arvense)
• Belle Isle cress
• bittercress, bitter-cress, bog cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
• blister cress (Erysimum spp. and Cheiranthus spp.)
• bulbous cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
• California cress (Sisymbrium officinale)
• cedar glade cress (Leavenworthia stylosa)
• chamois cress (Pritzelago alpina, Lepidium alpina)
• cow cress (Lepidium campestre)
• cress rocket (Vella pseudocytisus)
• cressweed (Diplotaxis muralis)
• cresswort (Brassicaceae spp.)
• curled cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
• dock cress (Lampsana communis)
• fetid cress (Lepidium ruderale)
• field cress (Lepidium campestre)
• fool's cress (Apium nodiflorum)
• garden cress (Lepidium sativum)
• golden cress (Lepidium sativum)
• hairy bitter cress (Cardamine hirsuta)
• hoary cress (Lepidium draba)
• Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus)
• lake cress (Armoracia aquatica)
• lamb's cress (Cardamine hirsuta)
• land cress (Barbarea verna)
• marsh cress (Rorippa palustris)
• meadow cress (Cardamine pratensis)
• monks cress, monk's cress (Tropaeolum majus)
• mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
• northern rock cress (Arabis petraea)
• not worth a cress
• pennycress (Thlaspi arvense)
• peppercress (Lepidium spp.)
• Peter's cress
• river cress (Armoracia aquatica)
• rockcress (species of Arabis, Arabidopsis, Cardaminopsis), Boechera, and Braya)
• rocketcress (Barbarea vulgaris)
• shepherd's cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis)
• Spanish cress (Lepidium cardamines)
• spring cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
• St. Barbara's cress (Barbarea spp.)
• stone cress (Aethionema grandiflorum)
• summer cress
• swine's cress (Coronopus spp.)
• thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
• Thanet cress (Lepidium draba)
• town cress (Lepidium sativum)
• trophy cress (Tropaeolum spp.)
• tower cress (Arabis glabra, Arabis turrita)
• upland cress (Barbarea verna)
• wart cress (Lepidium spp., Coronopus spp.)
• watercress, water-cress (Nasturtium officinale; also Nasturtium microphyllum)
• wall cress
• well cress
• winter cress (Barbarea vulgaris)
• yellow cress (Barbarea praecox))
• yellowcress (Rorippa spp., especially Rorippa palustris)

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
• Korean: 물냉이 (mullaeng'i)
• Latin: nasturtium n
• Luxembourgish: Cresson m
• Maori: kirihi
• 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 f

Etymology 2

Noun

cress (plural cresses)

1. Archaic form of kris.

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian crescere, from Latin.

Verb

cress

1. to grow

Yola

Alternative forms

• criss

Etymology

From Middle English creiz, from Old French crois, from Latin crux, crucem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾɛs/, /kɾɪs/

Noun

cress

1. crossroad
   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 7-8:

     'choo'd drieve aam aul awye to Kie o' Cress Farnogue, an maake aam cry, 'Rotheda Palloake !' "

     I would drive them all away to the quay of Cross Farnogue, and make them cry, 'Rotten Palluck !' "

Verb

cress

1. cross
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:

     'Cham afear'd ich mosth cress a Shanaan,

     I am afraid I must cross the Shannon,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 32