crisper

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English crisp

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English crisper

From crisp + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪspə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪspɚ/

Adjective

crisper

1. comparative form of crisp: more crisp

Noun

crisper (plural crispers)

1. A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
2. The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.
3. An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.
4. (archaic) A device for crisping or curling the hair.
   • 1944, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 61, page 51:

     Now she had washed her hair and set it with those tin crispers to which her brother-in-law had objected, and rolled the ends on metal curlers.

Translations

the section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables

• Dutch: groentela (nl)

Anagrams

• pricers

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crispāre. Cf. crêper, which may be an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁis.pe/

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Verb

crisper

1. (of a muscle) to tense, to tense up

Conjugation

Conjugation of crisper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	crisper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	crispant /kʁis.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		crispé /kʁis.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	crispe /kʁisp/	crispes /kʁisp/	crispe /kʁisp/	crispons /kʁis.pɔ̃/	crispez /kʁis.pe/	crispent /kʁisp/
	imperfect	crispais /kʁis.pɛ/	crispais /kʁis.pɛ/	crispait /kʁis.pɛ/	crispions /kʁis.pjɔ̃/	crispiez /kʁis.pje/	crispaient /kʁis.pɛ/
	past historic2	crispai /kʁis.pe/	crispas /kʁis.pa/	crispa /kʁis.pa/	crispâmes /kʁis.pam/	crispâtes /kʁis.pat/	crispèrent /kʁis.pɛʁ/
	future	crisperai /kʁis.pə.ʁe/	crisperas /kʁis.pə.ʁa/	crispera /kʁis.pə.ʁa/	crisperons /kʁis.pə.ʁɔ̃/	crisperez /kʁis.pə.ʁe/	crisperont /kʁis.pə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	crisperais /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/	crisperais /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/	crisperait /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/	crisperions /kʁis.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	crisperiez /kʁis.pə.ʁje/	crisperaient /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	crispe /kʁisp/	crispes /kʁisp/	crispe /kʁisp/	crispions /kʁis.pjɔ̃/	crispiez /kʁis.pje/	crispent /kʁisp/
	imperfect2	crispasse /kʁis.pas/	crispasses /kʁis.pas/	crispât /kʁis.pa/	crispassions /kʁis.pa.sjɔ̃/	crispassiez /kʁis.pa.sje/	crispassent /kʁis.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	crispe /kʁisp/	—	crispons /kʁis.pɔ̃/	crispez /kʁis.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

crīsper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of crīspō