croat

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kɾuˈat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kɾoˈat]
• Rhymes: -at

From the participle of the obsolete Catalan verb croar (“to cross”).

croat (feminine croada, masculine plural croats, feminine plural croades)

1. (obsolete) having the shape of a cross
2. (obsolete) decorated with one or more crosses

• creuat

croat m (plural croats)

1. (historical, military) crusader (a Christian warrior who went on a crusade)
2. (obsolete but later revived) crusader (anyone engaged in a concerted effort to do good)
3. (historical, numismatics) a silver coin of the County of Barcelona minted from 1285 to 1706 and worth 12 diners, so named on account of the large cross on the reverse

• croada (“crusade”)

• Croat (moneda) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

From Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt (“Croat”).

croat (feminine croata, masculine plural croats, feminine plural croates)

1. Croatian (pertaining to Croatia, to the Croatian people, or to the Croatian language)

croat m (plural croats, feminine croata, feminine plural croates)

1. Croat (an inhabitant of Croatia or an ethnic Croat)

• Croàcia (“Croatia”)

croat m (uncountable)

1. Croatian (a Slavic language of the Balkans)

   Synonym: serbocroat

• “croat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “croat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “croat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “croat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from French Croate, German Kroate, from Latin Croata, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ. Doublet of the now archaic or obsolete original form, arvat.

• IPA^(key): /kroˈat/

croat m (plural croați, feminine equivalent croată)

1. Croat, Croatian

croat m or n (feminine singular croată, masculine plural croați, feminine and neuter plural croate)

1. Croatian