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crescent
English
Alternative forms
- (curved street): cres. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English cressaunt, from Anglo-Norman cressaunt and Old French creissant (“crescent of the moon”) (French croissant), from Latin cr?sc?ns, present active participle of cr?sc? (“arise, thrive”), from Proto-Indo-European *?reh?- (“to grow”). See Old Armenian ????? (serim, “be born”) and ????? (serem, “bring forth”), Ancient Greek ???? (kór?, “girl”) and ?????? (koúros, “boy”), Latin creare (“produce, create, bring forth”) and Ceres (“goddess of agriculture”). Doublet of croissant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??.z?nt/, /?k??.s?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k??.s?nt/, /?k??.z?nt/
- Rhymes: -?s?nt, -?z?nt
Noun
crescent (plural crescents)
- The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
- Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
- A curved pastry.
- A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
- (Islam) A representation of crescent used as a symbol of Islam.
- (New Zealand) A crescent spanner.
- (historical) Any of three orders of knighthood conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- (heraldry) The emblem of the waxing Moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
- A crescentspot butterfly.
Derived terms
- Crescent City
- crescent roll
- Crescent Springs
- Fertile Crescent
Translations
Adjective
crescent (not comparable)
- (dated, rare) marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon.
- 1835, Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, Poems, Moxon, London (1842):
- O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set.
- 1835, Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, Poems, Moxon, London (1842):
- Shaped like a crescent.
Antonyms
- gibbous
Translations
Verb
crescent (third-person singular simple present crescents, present participle crescenting, simple past and past participle crescented)
- (transitive) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
- (transitive) To adorn with crescents.
Latin
Verb
cr?scent
- third-person plural future active indicative of cr?sc?
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lunula
English
Alternative forms
- lunule
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin l?nula.
Noun
lunula (plural lunulae)
- Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.
Derived terms
- lunular
- lunulate
Translations
See also
- eponychium
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin l?nula.
Noun
lunula
- (anatomy) lunula (pale area at the base of a fingernail)
Declension
Synonyms
- puolikuu
Anagrams
- laulun
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin l?nula.
Noun
lunula f (plural lunule)
- lunette, half-moon, lunula
Latin
Etymology
l?na (“moon”) +? -ula
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?lu?.nu.la/, [???u?n???ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?lu.nu.la/, [?lu?nul?]
Noun
l?nula f (genitive l?nulae); first declension
- an ornament in the form of a little moon
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- English: lunule, lunula
- French: lunule
- Italian: lunula
References
- lunula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lunula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- lunula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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