crosta

Inherited from Latin crusta (“bark, crust, shell”) (compare Occitan crosta, French croûte, Spanish costra), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”). The /ɔ/ is unexpected and perhaps due to influence from other words with similar meanings.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɾɔs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɾɔs.ta]

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crosta f (plural crostes)

1. crust (any hard surface layer; surface layer of most breads and pastries)
2. (geology) crust (outermost solid layer of a planet)

   Synonym: escorça

3. rind (hard surface layer of a cheese)
4. scab (crust over a wound made from clotted blood)

• incrustar

• “crosta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “crosta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “crosta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin crusta, from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾosta/ [ˈkɾos̺.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -osta
• Hyphenation: cros‧ta

crosta f (plural crostas)

1. crust (any solid, hard surface layer; outer layer of bread and pastry)

   Synonyms: codia, esturia, arneiro, bouta, arna, silro

2. (geology) crust (outermost layer of a planet)

   Synonyms: codia, casca, lostra, lastra, cortiza

3. scab (incrustation over a wound)

   Synonym: bostela

• crostoso
• encrostar

• “crosta” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrˠɔs̪ˠt̪ˠə/

crosta

1. past participle of cros

crosta

1. fractious
2. troublesome, difficult
3. mischievous, contrary (of child)
4. forbidden

   Synonyms: coiscthe, faoi chosc, toirmiscthe

• crostacht

crosta m sg

1. genitive singular of crosadh

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

crosta (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

1. across

crosta

1. across

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “crosta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “crosta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɔs.ta/, (dialectal) /ˈkros.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔsta, (dialectal) -osta
• Hyphenation: crò‧sta, (dialectal) cró‧sta

From Latin crusta, from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

crosta f (plural croste)

1. crust (of cheese, bread, etc.)
2. scab (of a wound)
3. daub (bad picture)
4. rind

• crostoso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

crosta

1. inflection of crostare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• crosta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• crosta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• crosta in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• crosta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• crosta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• crosta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• castro, castrò, scarto, scartò, scorta, storca

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrusta/

crosta f

1. crust

• crosta on the Lombard Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^lmo

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin crusta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾustɔ/

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crosta f (plural crostas)

1. crust

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin crusta, from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ostɐ, (Portugal) -oʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: cro‧ta

crosta f (plural crostas)

1. crust (any solid, hard surface layer; outer layer of bread and pastry)
2. (geology) crust (outermost layer of a planet)
3. scab (incrustation over a wound)

   Synonyms: bostela, casca

• “crosta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “crosta”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “crosta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “crosta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “crosta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “crosta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• crosda

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɾɔs̪t̪ə/

crosta

1. cross, irritable, grumpy, grouchy
2. naughty, peevish

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