crotal

Either from French crotale or directly from Latin crotalum.^[1] Ultimately from Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon, “clapper”).^[2] Doublet of crotalum.

crotal (plural crotals)

1. A crotalum, a type of clapper used in Ancient Greece.
2. A small round bell or rattle; a jingle bell.
   • 1970, Dorothy Malone Anthony, The World of Bells, page 14:

     The earliest type animal bell used was the crotal or sleigh bell. Rather than a round ball as we know it today, it was a birdcage style with pebble rolling around inside.

   • 1978, Nathaniel Spear, A Treasury of Archaeological Bells, page 14:

     The tumuli of most of these people have yielded bells, of both the crotal and swinging-clapper varieties.

From Scottish Gaelic crotal.

crotal (plural crotals)

1. Alternative form of crottle (“lichen used for dyeing”).

• crotall

From Middle Irish crotball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾˠɔt̪ˠəlˠ/

crotal m (genitive singular crotail, nominative plural crotail)

1. husk, hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
2. dyer's moss (Roccella tinctoria)

• “crotal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crottball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “crotal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 200
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crotal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from French crotale.

crotal m (plural crotali)

1. crotal bell
2. crotale (snake)

crotal (plural crotals)

1. alternative form of crottle (“lichen used for dyeing; dye from lichen”)

• cnotal

From Middle Irish crotball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɾɔʰt̪əl̪ˠ/

crotal m (genitive singular crotail)

1. lichen in general
   1. crottle (Parmelia, particularly Parmelia saxatilis and omphalodes); used for producing red and brown dye
2. husk, rind