cresta

Inherited from Latin crista.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɾɛs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɾəs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkɾes.ta]

cresta f (plural crestes)

1. comb, crest (a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles)
2. crest (the ridge or top of a wave)

• cresta de gall
• crestejar
• crestall
• cresteria

• “cresta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cresta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cresta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cresta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin crista.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkre.sta/
• Rhymes: -esta
• Hyphenation: cré‧sta

cresta f (plural creste)

1. crest
2. comb (of a chicken etc.)
3. ridge (of a mountain)
4. Mohawk hairstyle

• cresta dell' onda
• cresta del monte
• cresta del gallo

• tresca

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cresta f (plural crestas)

1. crest, ridge

cresta

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

• încresta

Often considered to be from creastă, but more likely ultimately from Latin castrāre, present active infinitive of castrō through metathesis (and thus possibly a doublet of the borrowing castra). Compare Occitan crestar (“to castrate”), Portuguese crestar (“collect honey from a beehive”). See also the change of 'a' to 'e' in rapidus to repede. For the development of the meaning, compare Abruzzo dialect castrá, Calabrian ncastra, ncastratura.

a cresta (third-person singular present crestează, past participle crestat) 1st conj.

1. to cut
2. to notch
3. to make incisions

• crestătură
• crestare

• castra

Inherited from Latin crista. Doublet of crista.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾesta/ [ˈkɾes.t̪a]
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• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: cres‧ta

cresta f (plural crestas)

1. comb (of a chicken or other bird)
2. crest (of an animal)
3. sharp peaks (of a mountain)
4. ridge (of a wave)
5. Mohawk hairstyle

   Synonyms: mohicano, iro

cresta

1. (Chile) shit (failure)

• “cresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014