crista

• enPR: krĭsˈtə, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪstə/
• Hyphenation: cris‧ta

crista (plural cristae or cristæ)

1. The internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place.
2. A crest.

• TRIACs, artics, racist, scairt, triacs, tsaric

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with crinis (“hair”), crispus (“curly”). Cognate with Albanian krip. Confer Ancient Greek κόρση (kórsē, “temple (anatomy)”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkris.ta/, [ˈkrɪs.ta]

crista f (genitive cristae); first declension

1. (of a helmet) the crest, the plume

   Crista galeae.

   The plume of a helmet.

   Galea decora comanti cristae.

   An helmet decorated with a plumed crest.

2. the comb or tuft on the head of animals (most frequently of a rooster or a cock)

   Illi surgunt cristae.

   He carries his head high.

   Crista galli.

   The comb of a rooster.

3. the tuft of leaves on plants

   Crista foliorum.

   The tuft of the leaves.

4. (anatomy) the clitoris

cristā

1. ablative singular of crista

First declension.

• cristula

• cristātus

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: creastã
  • Romanian: creastă
• Italian: cresta
• Old French: creste
  • French: crête
  • Walloon: cresse
  • → Middle English: creste
    • English: crest
    • Scots: creest, crest
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: cresta
  • Occitan: cresta
• Old Portuguese: crista, cresta
  • Galician: crista
  • Portuguese: crista
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: crista
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: creste
  • Romansch: cresta
• Sicilian: crista
• Venetian: gresta
• → Albanian: kreshtë
• → English: crista
• → Spanish: crista

• lophos

• crista in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crista in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crista in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• crista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• crista in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crista in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Old Portuguese crista, cresta, from Latin crista.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾiʃ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: cris‧ta

crista f (plural cristas)

1. crest
2. ridge

Borrowed from Latin crista. See also the inherited doublet cresta.

crista f (plural cristas)

1. crest (of a helmet)