crusta

See also: crustă

English

Etymology

Latin crusta (“shell, crust, inlaid work”).

Noun

crusta (plural crustae)

1. A crust or shell.
2. A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
3. A cocktail (typically of brandy, orange liqueur, bitters, and lemon juice and peel) distinguished by a sugared crust on the rim of the glass.
   • 1862, Jerry Thomas, How to Mix Drinks, Or The Bon-vivant's Companion, Dick & Fitzgerald, p.52:

     Crusta is made the same as a fancy cocktail, with a little lemon juice and a small lump of ice added.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crusta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• curats, turcas

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रुड् (kruḍ, “thicken, make hard”).

Pronunciation

• crū̆sta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkruːs.ta/, [ˈkruːs̠t̪ä] or IPA^(key): /ˈkrus.ta/, [ˈkrʊs̠t̪ä]
• crū̆sta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkrus.ta/, [ˈkrust̪ä]
• crū̆stā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkruːs.taː/, [ˈkruːs̠t̪äː] or IPA^(key): /ˈkrus.taː/, [ˈkrʊs̠t̪äː]
• crū̆stā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkrus.ta/, [ˈkrust̪ä]

Noun

crū̆sta f (genitive crū̆stae); first declension

1. The hard surface of a body; rind, shell, crust, bark, scab.
2. Plaster, mosaic or stucco work on a wall.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crū̆sta	crū̆stae
Genitive	crū̆stae	crū̆stārum
Dative	crū̆stae	crū̆stīs
Accusative	crū̆stam	crū̆stās
Ablative	crū̆stā	crū̆stīs
Vocative	crū̆sta	crū̆stae

Derived terms

• crū̆stārius
• crū̆stō

• crū̆stōsus
• crū̆stula

Descendants

• Catalan: crosta
• French: croûte
• Friulian: croste
• Italian: crosta
• Norman: crôte
• Occitan: crosta
• Portuguese: crosta

• Romanian: crustă
• Sicilian: crusta
• Spanish: costra
• Venetian: crosta, grosta
• → English: crust
• → German: Kruste
• → Greek: κρούστα (kroústa)

Noun

(deprecated template usage) crū̆sta n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crū̆stum

References

• “crusta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crusta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crusta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• crusta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “crusta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “crusta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin