croissant

See also: Croissant

English
Croissants are usually eaten for breakfast.

Etymology

Borrowed from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wʌsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wɑːsɒ̃/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /kɹwɑˈsɑ̃/
  • (US)
    (file)
    IPA(key): [kʰɹəˈsɑnt]
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /kɹwɑˈsɑ̃/, /kxwəˈsɑ̃(t)/
  • (Canada)
    (file)
    IPA(key): [kʰɹ̥əˈsɑnt]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɹɘˈsɔnt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /kɹəˈsɔnt/

Noun

croissant (plural croissants)

  1. A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
    Synonyms: crescent, crescent roll, kipfel
    Hypernym: viennoiserie

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. croissant

Czech

Noun

croissant m

  1. croissant

Further reading
  • croissant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /krɑˈsɑnt/, /krɔˈsɑnt/, /krʋɑˈsɑnt/, [krʋɑˈsɑ̃], [krɑˈsɑ̃]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: crois‧sant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants, diminutive croissantje n)

  1. croissant

Derived terms
  • chocoladecroissant
  • kaascroissant

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkroɑsɑːn/, [ˈkro̞ɑs̠ɑːn] (approximating the French pronunciation)
  • IPA(key): /ˈkroi̯sːɑnt/, [ˈkro̞i̯s̠ːɑn̪t̪] (following Finnish pronunciation rules)

Noun

croissant

  1. croissant

Declension
Inflection of croissant (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative croissant croissantit
genitive croissantin croissantien
partitive croissantia croissanteja
illative croissantiin croissanteihin
singular plural
nominative croissant croissantit
accusative nom. croissant croissantit
gen. croissantin
genitive croissantin croissantien
partitive croissantia croissanteja
inessive croissantissa croissanteissa
elative croissantista croissanteista
illative croissantiin croissanteihin
adessive croissantilla croissanteilla
ablative croissantilta croissanteilta
allative croissantille croissanteille
essive croissantina croissanteina
translative croissantiksi croissanteiksi
instructive — croissantein
abessive croissantitta croissanteitta
comitative — croissanteineen

Synonyms

French

Etymology

Present participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscēns, crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“I augment”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʁwa.sɑ̃/
  • Audio (FR)(file)

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. crescent
  2. croissant
  3. crescent moon
    croissant de lune
  4. (heraldry) crescent

Derived terms

Adjective

croissant (feminine singular croissante, masculine plural croissants, feminine plural croissantes)

  1. increasing, augmenting

Verb

croissant

  1. present participle of croître
  2. present participle of croitre

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /krwasˈsan/

Noun

croissant m (plural invariable or croissants)

  1. croissant

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French croissant

Noun

croissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissanter, definite plural croissantene)

  1. a croissant

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French croissant

Noun

croissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissantar, definite plural croissantane)

  1. a croissant

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌkɾo.a.ˈsɐ̃/, /kɾwa.ˈsɐ̃/

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. croissant (a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)

Spanish

Noun

croissant m (plural croissants)

  1. Alternative spelling of cruasán

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /krʊ.aˈsaŋ/

Noun

croissant c

  1. croissant

Declension
Declension of croissant 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative croissant croissanten croissanter croissanterna
Genitive croissants croissantens croissanters croissanternas
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