credenza

Borrowed from Italian credenza.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈdɛnzə/

credenza (plural credenzas)

1. A sideboard or buffet.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 19:

     It was as if Belonging lay in some ivory-inlaid credenza in the Hague, waiting to be opened before expiration date.

2. A horizontal filing cabinet, typically placed behind a desk.
   • 2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     I wandered over to his record collection, past his mantel displaying mid-century lighters, past his closet filled with trench coats and shoehorns, past his credenza stacked with pamphlets.

• crazened

From Late Latin crēdentia, from Latin crēdēns. By surface analysis, credere +‎ -enza.

• IPA^(key): /kreˈdɛn.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -ɛntsa
• Hyphenation: cre‧dèn‧za

credenza f (plural credenze)

1. belief, credit
2. (furniture) sideboard, cupboard, hutch, abacus (church furniture)

• credere

• → German: Kredenz

• madia
• dispensa

• credenza¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• credenza² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana