crusta
English
Etymology
Latin crusta (“shell, crust, inlaid work”).
Noun
crusta (plural crustae)
- A crust or shell.
- A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
- 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.
- 1862, Jerry Thomas, How to Mix Drinks, Or The Bon-vivant's Companion, Dick & Fitzgerald, p.52:
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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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] [1]
Noun
crū̆sta f (genitive crū̆stae); first declension
- The hard surface of a body; rind, shell, crust, bark, scab.
- 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
Descendants
Noun
(deprecated template usage) crū̆sta n
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
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