Translation
cream (from milk); cream (a cosmetic preparation)
Word origin
From French crème, which the dictionaries trace to a Late Latin crama, probably Gaulish, crossed early on with Church Latin chrisma, the anointing oil. English cream comes down the same French line.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- crème
- English cognates
- cream, chrism
Examples
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She put cream in her coffee.
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The cake is full of sweet cream.
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Cream is the fattiest part of the milk.
One root, and the -o is only the noun ending. - is a single
borrowed piece: there is no verb kremi sitting behind it, and nothing inside
the word is an Esperanto affix. It looks short enough to be built, and it is
not, which is the ordinary state of the international vocabulary.
Three senses, and the dictionary keeps them apart. The first is the fatty
part of lakto that rises to the top. The second is
figurative, the pick of something: . The third is a
cosmetic or medical preparation - a shaving cream, a hand cream - and English
uses the same word for the same reason, so nothing needs learning here.
The family is small and regular. o is a pudding made of cream,
sugar and eggs; acidkremo is soured cream; krema is the adjective, and
kremkolora is cream-coloured. Every one of those is built the ordinary way
from the root, which is what a borrowed root is for.
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