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6-letter words (2 found)

CRUSTA,CURATS,

5-letter words (12 found)

ARCUS,CARTS,CRUST,CURAT,CURST,RATUS,SCART,SCAUR,SCRAT,SCUTA,SURAT,SUTRA,

4-letter words (30 found)

ACTS,ARCS,ARTS,CARS,CART,CAST,CATS,CRUS,CURS,CURT,CUTS,RAST,RATS,RATU,RUCS,RUSA,RUST,RUTS,SAUT,SCAR,SCAT,SCUR,SCUT,STAR,SURA,TARS,TAUS,TSAR,URSA,UTAS,

3-letter words (24 found)

ACT,ARC,ARS,ART,ATS,CAR,CAT,CRU,CUR,CUT,RAS,RAT,RUC,RUT,SAC,SAR,SAT,SAU,SUR,TAR,TAS,TAU,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (8 found)

AR,AS,AT,ST,TA,UR,US,UT,

You can make 76 words from crusta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crusta

crusta

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹʌstə/

Etymology 1

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.
Related terms
  • crusta lactea

Etymology 2

Noun

crusta (plural crustas)

  1. A cocktail (typically of brandy, orange liqueur, bitters, and lemon juice and peel) distinguished by a sugared crust on the rim of the glass.

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 κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रुड् (kruḍ, “thicken, make hard”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkrus.ta/, [ˈkrʊs̠t̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkrus.ta/, [ˈkrust̪ä]

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

Further reading

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “crŭsta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1371

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