different between crustal vs crusta

English

Etymology

From crust +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??st?l/

Adjective

crustal (comparative more crustal, superlative most crustal)

1. Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 189:

     The hope was to lower a drill through over 4,000 metres of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 5,000 metres through relatively thin crustal rock.

Anagrams

• curtals

French

Adjective

crustal (feminine singular crustale, masculine plural crustaux, feminine plural crustales)

1. crustal

English

Etymology

Latin crusta (“shell, crust, inlaid work”).

Noun

crusta (plural crustae)

1. A crust or shell.
2. A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
3. A cocktail (typically of brandy, orange liqueur, bitters, and lemon juice and peel) distinguished by a sugared crust on the rim of the glass.
   • 1862, Jerry Thomas, How to Mix Drinks, Or The Bon-vivant's Companion, Dick & Fitzgerald, p.52:

     Crusta is made the same as a fancy cocktail, with a little lemon juice and a small lump of ice added.

Anagrams

• curats, turcas

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek ????? (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), ?????????? (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan ????????????????????????????-? (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit ?????? (kru?, “thicken, make hard”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?krus.ta/, [?k??s?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?krus.ta/, [?k?ust??]

Noun

crusta f (genitive crustae); first declension

1. The hard surface of a body; rind, shell, crust, bark, scab.
2. Plaster, mosaic or stucco work on a wall.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

crusta n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crustum

References

• crusta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crusta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crusta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• crusta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• crusta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crusta in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin