croûte
See also: croute, crouté, and croûté
French
Alternative forms
- croute (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
From Middle French crouste, from Old French croste, cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁut/
Audio (France) (file) - Homophone: croûtes
Noun
croûte f (plural croûtes)
- crust (of e.g. bread)
- (geology) crust
- scab
Derived terms
- écroûter
- casser la croûte
Further reading
- “croûte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- courte, couter, coûter