crista
See also: Crista and cristã
English
Etymology
From Latin crista. Doublet of crest.
Pronunciation
- enPR: krĭsˈtə, IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪstə/
- Hyphenation: cris‧ta
Noun
crista (plural cristae or cristæ)
- Any of the internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place.
- A dental crest.
Related terms
- crista ampullaris
Translations
the internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place
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Anagrams
- TRIACs, artics, racist, scairt, triacs, tsaric
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese crista, from Latin crista.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾista̝/
Noun
crista f (plural cristas)
- crest
- comb, tuft (of animals)
- ridge
- (botany) hydropiper (Polygonum hydropiper)
- (botany) lady's thumb (Persicaria maculosa)
- Synonym: crista de galo
References
- “crista” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “crista” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “crista” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “crista” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “crista” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with crinis (“hair”), crispus (“curly”). Confer Ancient Greek κόρση (kórsē, “temple (anatomy)”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkris.ta/, [ˈkrɪs̠t̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkris.ta/, [ˈkrist̪ä]
Noun
crista f (genitive cristae); first declension
- (of a helmet) the crest, the plume
- Crista galeae.
- The plume of a helmet.
- Galea decora comanti cristae.
- An helmet decorated with a plumed crest.
- Crista galeae.
- the comb or tuft on the head of animals (most frequently of a rooster or a cock)
- Illi surgunt cristae.
- He carries his head high.
- Crista galli.
- The comb of a rooster.
- Illi surgunt cristae.
- the tuft of leaves on plants
- Crista foliorum.
- The tuft of the leaves.
- Crista foliorum.
- (anatomy) the clitoris
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | crista | cristae |
Genitive | cristae | cristārum |
Dative | cristae | cristīs |
Accusative | cristam | cristās |
Ablative | cristā | cristīs |
Vocative | crista | cristae |
Derived terms
- cristula
Related terms
- cristātus
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: creastã
- Romanian: creastă
- Italian: cresta
- → Old English: cræsta
- Old French: creste
- French: crête
- Walloon: cresse
- → Middle English: creste
- English: crest
- Scots: creest, crest
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: cresta
- Occitan: cresta
- Old Portuguese: crista, cresta
- Galician: crista
- Portuguese: crista
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: crista
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: creste
- Romansch: cresta
- Sicilian: crista
- Venetian: gresta
- → Albanian: kreshtë
- → English: crista
- → Spanish: crista
See also
- lophos
References
- “crista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crista 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)
- crista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “crista”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “crista”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese crista, cresta, from Latin crista.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾis.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkɾiʃ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾis.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɾiʃ.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: cris‧ta
Noun
crista f (plural cristas)
- crest
- ridge
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crista. See also the inherited doublet cresta.
Noun
crista f (plural cristas)
- crest (of a helmet)
Further reading
- “crista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014