croissant

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

• enPR: krwä-säɴʹ, krə-säntʹ
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wʌsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wɑːsɒ̃/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /k(ɹ)wɑˈsɑ̃/
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  IPA^(key): [kʰɹəˈsɑnt]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /k(ɹ)wɑˈsɑ̃/, /kxwəˈsɑ̃(t)/
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  IPA^(key): [kʰɹ̥əˈsɑnt]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kɹɘˈsɔnt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈsɔnt/
• Rhymes: (US, Canada) -ɑnt, (Australia, New Zealand) -ɔnt

croissant (plural croissants)

1. A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.

   Synonyms: crescent, crescent roll, kipfel

   Hypernym: viennoiserie

• croissant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Carsonist, Crisantos, Nicastros, anticross, cast irons

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kɾu.əˈsan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kɾu.aˈsan/

croissant m (plural croissants)

1. croissant

• croissanteria

• IPA^(key): [ˈkroasan]
• IPA^(key): [ˈkroasaːn]
• Oblique cases use any of [ˈkroasaːnt-], [ˈkroasaːn-], [ˈkroasant-] or [ˈkroasan-].

croissant m inan

1. croissant

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

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

• IPA^(key): /krɑˈsɑnt/, /krɔˈsɑnt/, /krʋɑˈsɑnt/, [krʋɑˈsɑ̃], [krɑˈsɑ̃]

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• Hyphenation: crois‧sant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

croissant m (plural croissants, diminutive croissantje n)

1. croissant

• chocoladecroissant
• kaascroissant

• → Indonesian: kroisan

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkruɑˈsã, kroɑsɑːn/, [ˈkruɑˈs̠ã, kro̞ɑs̠ɑːn] (approximating the French pronunciation more or less closely)[1]
• IPA^(key): /ˈkroi̯sːɑnt/, [ˈkro̞i̯s̠ːɑn̪t̪] (following Finnish pronunciation rules)

croissant

1. croissant

• kroissantti
• voisarvi

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”).

• IPA^(key): /kʁwa.sɑ̃/

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croissant m (plural croissants)

1. crescent
2. croissant
3. crescent moon

   croissant de lune

4. (heraldry) crescent

• (croissant): croissandwich
• (crescent): Croissant fertile

• → English: croissant
• → German: Croissant
• → Italian: croissant
• → Malay: roti bulan sabit (calque)
• Turkish: kuruvasan

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

1. increasing, augmenting

croissant

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

• “croissant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• castrions

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

• IPA^(key): /krwasˈsan/
• Rhymes: -an

croissant m (usually invariable, plural croissants)

1. croissant

   Synonyms: brioche, cornetto

• contrassi, sanscrito, scontarsi, scornasti, stranisco, strascino, strascinò, troncassi

From French croissant.

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

1. a croissant

• “croissant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From French croissant.

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

1. a croissant

• "croissant" Lexin

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, from Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscēns, crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrwa.sã/

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• Rhymes: -ɔsan
• Syllabification: croi‧ssant

croissant m inan

1. croissant

   Synonym: (regional) rożek

• croissant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• croissant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• croassã

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

croissant m (plural croissants)

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

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

• IPA^(key): /kɾwaˈsan/ [kɾwaˈsãn]
• Rhymes: -an

croissant m (plural croissants)

1. Alternative form of cruasán

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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

• IPA^(key): /krʊ.aˈsaŋ/

croissant c

1. croissant