crisol

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Catalan cresolbor.

Spanish crisolbor.

Portuguese crisol

Borrowed from Spanish crisol.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈzɔw/ [kɾiˈzɔʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈzɔl/ [kɾiˈzɔɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈzɔl/ [kɾiˈzɔɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈzɔ.li/

• Hyphenation: cri‧sol

Noun

crisol m (plural crisóis)

1. crucible (cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment)

   Synonym: cadinho

2. crucible (heat-resistant container in which metals are melted)

   Synonym: cadinho

Further reading

• “crisol”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “crisol”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “crisol”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan cresol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾiˈsol/ [kɾiˈsol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: cri‧sol

Noun

crisol m (plural crisoles)

1. crucible
2. (figurative) melting pot
   • 2018 September 25, Pablo León, “¿Para quién es ‘cool’ Lavapiés?”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Ese crisol -de nacionalidades, de expresiones culturales, de inquietudes…– y los alquileres asequibles (debido a los problemas derivados del mercado de la droga, de la delincuencia y a la alta presencia de población migrante) también atrajeron a actores, directores de cine, periodistas, o agentes sociales (ONG, movimientos políticos alternativos, las primeras casas okupas...).

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3. furnace hearth

Derived terms

• acrisolar

Descendants

• → Portuguese: crisol

Further reading

• “crisol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025