cru

Borrowed from French cru. Doublet of crude.

• Homophones: crew, crewe, Crewe

cru (plural crus)

1. A grade or class of wine.

   premier cru

• RUC, cur, ruc

From a variant of Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan crus), from Latin crūdus (compare French cru, Spanish crudo).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾu/
• Rhymes: -u

cru (feminine crua, masculine plural crus, feminine plural crues)

1. raw

• cruesa

• “cru” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From French.

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cru (not comparable)

1. crude, coarse

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• IPA^(key): /kʁy/
• Homophone: crû

From Middle French crud, from Old French cru, creu, from Latin crūdus.

cru (feminine singular crue, masculine plural crus, feminine plural crues)

1. raw (uncooked, unprocessed)

• écru

• crudité

cru m (feminine singular crue, masculine plural crus, feminine plural crues)

1. past participle of croire

Nominal use of crû, past participle of croître.

cru m (plural crus)

1. vineyard; vintage

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

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cruu, from Latin crūdus, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾu/

cru m (feminine singular crúa, masculine plural crus, feminine plural crúas)

1. raw; unprocessed
   • 1295, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:

     acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido

     you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of weaved cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three boiled

2. (dated) cruel
   • 1348, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 316:

     Et, ãdando ambos muy fortes et muy cruus en sua batalla, ferindose muy sen piadade

     And, being both very strong and cruel in their battle, they hurt one another mercilessly

• cruel
• crueza

• “cruu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cruu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cru” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cru” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cru” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from French cru. Doublet of crudo.

• Rhymes: -u

cru m (invariable)

1. cru (vineyard known for its quality without official rankings)

• creu

From Latin crudus.

cru m (oblique and nominative feminine singular crue)

1. raw (uncooked)

• Middle French: crud
  • French: cru

From Old Portuguese cruu, from Latin crūdus, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾu/
• Hyphenation: cru
• Rhymes: -u

cru (feminine singular crua, masculine plural crus, feminine plural cruas, comparable)

1. raw (uncooked, unprocessed)

• crueza