croûte

See also: croute, crouté, and croûté

French

Alternative forms

• croute (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French crouste, from Old French croste, cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁut/

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• Homophone: croûtes

Noun

croûte f (plural croûtes)

1. crust (of e.g. bread)
2. (geology) crust
3. scab

Derived terms

• écroûter
• casser la croûte

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• courte, couter, coûter