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English

Alternative forms

• crater

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (krat?r).

Noun

krater (plural kraters)

1. (historical) An ancient Greek vessel for mixing water and wine.
   • 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press (?ISBN), page 34:

Translations

Anagrams

• Karter, karter

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krat?r, “mixing bowl, wassail-bowl”).

Noun

krater n (definite singular krateret, indefinite plural kratere or kratre, definite plural kraterne or kratrene)

1. a crater

References

• “krater” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cr?t?r, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kra?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: kra?ter
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

krater m (plural kraters, diminutive kratertje n)

1. (astronomy) meteoric crater

   Synonyms: inslagkrater, meteorietkrater

2. (geology) volcanic crater

   Synonym: vulkaankrater

3. crater caused by an explosion
4. (archaeology) krater (Ancient Greek vessel)

Hypernyms

• (krater): mengvat

Derived terms

• bomkrater
• granaatkrater
• inslagkrater
• kratermeer
• kratertrechter
• maankrater
• meteorietkrater
• vulkaankrater

Descendants

• Afrikaans: krater
• ? West Frisian: krater

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krat?r, “mixing bowl, wassail-bowl”).

Noun

krater n (definite singular krateret or kratret, indefinite plural krater or kratre, definite plural kratra or kratrene)

1. a crater

Usage notes

The indefinite plural kratere and definite plural kraterne are also used; these occur in Danish and may be acceptable in Riksmål, but not in Bokmål.

Derived terms

• bombekrater
• kratersjø

References

• “krater” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krat?r, “mixing bowl, wassail-bowl”).

Noun

krater n (definite singular krateret, indefinite plural krater, definite plural kratera)

1. a crater

Derived terms

• bombekrater
• kratersjø

References

• “krater” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kra.t?r/

Noun

krater m inan

1. (astronomy) crater
2. (geology) crater
3. (historical) krater

Declension

Further reading

• krater in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Krater, from Latin crater.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr??ter/
• Hyphenation: kra?ter

Noun

kráter m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. crater

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krà?t?r/

Noun

kráter m inan

1. crater

Inflection

Swedish

Noun

krater c

1. a crater (astronomy: hemispherical pit)

Declension

English

Etymology 1

First coined 1613, from Latin cr?t?r (“basin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(r)

Noun

crater (plural craters)

1. (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]

   Synonym: astrobleme

2. (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
3. The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
4. (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
5. (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
   • 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:

     The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

See also

• machtesh
• caldera

Translations

References

• crater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

1. To form craters in a surface.
2. To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.

   Synonyms: implode, hollow out

3. (snowboarding) To crash or fall.

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.t??/

Noun

crater (plural craters)

1. (Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
   • 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

     Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?

Usage notes

This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing.

Anagrams

• Carter, arrect, carter, tracer

Latin

Alternative forms

• cr?t?ra

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from ????????? (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kra?.te?r/, [?k?ä?t?e?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kra.ter/, [?k???t??r]

Noun

cr?t?r m (genitive cr?t?ris or cr?t?ros); third declension

1. A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
2. The opening of a volcano.

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).

Descendants

• ? English: crater
• ? Finnish: krateeri
• ? French: cratère
• ? German: Krater
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????
• ? Russian: ??????? (kráter)
• ? Spanish: cráter

References

• crater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crater in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crater in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• crater in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From French cratère

Noun

crater n (plural cratere)

1. crater

Declension