croûte

See also: croute, crouté, and croûté

French

Alternative forms

croute (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French crouste, from Old French croste, cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kʁut/
Audio (France) (file)
Homophone: croûtes

Noun

croûte f (plural croûtes)

crust (of e.g. bread)
(geology) crust
scab

Derived terms

écroûter
casser la croûte

Further reading

“croûte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

courte, couter, coûter

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