croûte

See also: croute, crouté, and croûté

French

Alternative forms

croute (1990 reform spelling)

Etymology

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

Further reading

“croûte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

courte, couter, coûter

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