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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkrus.ta/, [ˈkrʊs.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.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crusta crustae
Genitive crustae crustārum
Dative crustae crustīs
Accusative crustam crustās
Ablative crustā crustīs
Vocative crusta crustae

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

crusta n

  1. inflection of crustum:
    1. nominative plural
    2. accusative plural
    3. vocative plural

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, 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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