croissant
French
noun
Definitions
- crescent
- croissant
- crescent moon
- (heraldiccharge) crescent
Etymology
Inherited from Old French croisant inherited from Latin crēscēns, crescens, crēscentem.
Origin
Latin
crēscēns, crescens, crēscentem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- croissant English
- croissantlike English
- tricolon crescens English
- croissant Finnish
- kroissantti Finnish
- crēscēns Latin
- crēscēns, crescens, crēscentem Latin
- crēscēns, crēscentem Latin
- Croissant German
- croissant Italian
- croissant Dutch, Flemish
- круассан Russian
- cruasán Spanish, Castilian
- *ḱreh₁-, *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European
- croissant Norwegian Bokmål
- croissant Portuguese
- croissant Swedish
- クロワッサン Japanese
- croissant Polish
- croissant Norwegian Nynorsk
- creissant Old French
- croisant Old French
- kroasan Serbo-Croatian
- кроасан Serbo-Croatian
- crusant Catalan, Valencian
- ครัวซ็อง Thai
- kruvasan Turkish
- 可頌 Chinese
- 크루아상 Korean
- ຄົວຊ່ອງ Lao
- كرواسون Hijazi Arabic