different between crope vs crone

English

Etymology

From Middle English crope, from Old English cr?ap (“crept”), first and third person singular indicative of cr?opan (“to creep”).

Verb

crope

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of creep

Related terms

• cropen

Anagrams

• Pecor, Pore?, coper

Old French

Alternative forms

• croupe, crupe

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz.

Noun

crope f (oblique plural cropes, nominative singular crope, nominative plural cropes)

1. croup (rear of a horse)

Descendants

• Middle French: croupe
  • French: croupe (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: croupe
• ? Middle English: croupe, crope, crop, croppe
  • English: croup, croupe
  • Scots: crouppe

English

Etymology

From Old French carogne, French charogne (“carrion”). See carrion and crony.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?o?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: crosne

Noun

crone (plural crones)

1. (archaic) An old woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old woman

   • But still the crone was constant to her note.

2. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
3. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
4. (obsolete) An old ewe.
   • 1573, Tusser Five Hundred Good Points of Husbandry

     In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones

5. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
   • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

     A few old battered crones of office.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crone”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Ceron, Creon, Oncer, necro, necro-, oncer, recon

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch cor?na, from Latin cor?na. Doublet of crune.

Noun

crône f

1. crown, wreath

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• crônen

Descendants

• Dutch: kroon
  • Afrikaans: kroon
  • ? Indonesian: kerun
• Limburgish: kroean

Further reading

• “crone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “crone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

crone

1. Alternative form of crane (“crane”)