crusta

See also: crustă

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʌstə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin crusta (“shell, crust, inlaid work”). Doublet of crust.

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.

Related terms

• crusta lactea

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Etymology 2

Noun

crusta (plural crustas)

1. 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, page 52:

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

Anagrams

• curats, turcas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *krews-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *krustós

Proto-Italic *krustosder.

Latin crusta

From Proto-Italic *krustos, 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkrʊs.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrus.ta]

Noun

crusta f (genitive crustae); 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.

	singular	plural
nominative	crusta	crustae
genitive	crustae	crustārum
dative	crustae	crustīs
accusative	crustam	crustās
ablative	crustā	crustīs
vocative	crusta	crustae

Derived terms

• crustārius
• crustō
• crustōsus
• crustula

Descendants

• Catalan: crosta
• Old French: croste, crust, cruste, crouste, crut
  • Middle French: crouste
    • French: croûte
  • Norman: crôte
  • → Middle English: cruste, croste, crouste, curst
    • English: crust
    • Yola: crewst, crwest
    • → Welsh: crwst
• Friulian: croste
• Galician: crosta
• Italian: crosta
• Occitan: crosta
• Portuguese: crosta
• Romanian: crustă
• Sicilian: crusta
• Spanish: costra
• Venetan: crosta, grosta
• → Middle Dutch: corste
  • Dutch: korst
• → Middle Low German: korste
  • Plautdietsch: Kjarscht
• → Old High German: krusta
  • German: Kruste
• → Greek: κρούστα (kroústa)

Noun

crusta n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crustum

Further reading

• “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, 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
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “crŭsta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1371