crust
English
/kɹʌst/
noun
Definitions
- A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
- The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- An outer layer composed of pastry
- The bread-like base of a pizza.
- (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- (uncountable) Nerve, gall.
- (music genre) a subgenre of punk music
- (British) A living.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crusta (crust, shell, hard outer covering, inlaid work, bark, rind) borrowed from Old French cruste derived from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (hardened).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*krustós
Gloss
hardened
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- biocrust English
- bread English
- breadcrust English
- crusta English
- crustal English
- crustation English
- crustily English
- crustiness English
- crustless English
- crustlike English
- crustquake English
- crusty English
- decrust English
- intracrustal English
- kissing English
- kissing-crust English
- noncrustal English
- pie English
- piecrust English
- pizza English
- quake English
- short English
- shortcrust English
- subcrustal English
- thick English
- thick-crust pizza English
- thin English
- thin-crust pizza English
- uncrusty English
- crusta Latin
- crusto Latin
- crustosus Latin
- crustula Latin
- crio- Italian
- crosta Italian
- costra Spanish, Castilian
- crio- Spanish, Castilian
- κρύος Ancient Greek
- *krustós Proto-Indo-European
- crosta Portuguese
- *hrusǭ Proto-Germanic
- hruse Old English
- croste Old French
- cruste Old French
- krusto Esperanto
- crio- Catalan, Valencian
- crosta Catalan, Valencian
- crustă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- corste Middle Dutch
- krusta Old High German
- crôte Norman
- croste Friulian
- crosse Walloon