cresme
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Blended from Late Latin crāmum (“cream”) and Ecclesiastical Latin chrisma, from Ancient Greek χρῖσμᾰ (khrîsma, “anointing”), from χρίω (khríō, “to anoint”).
Noun edit
cresme oblique singular, f (oblique plural cresmes, nominative singular cresme, nominative plural cresmes)
- cream (milk product)
Descendants edit
- Middle French: chresme
- French: crème (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: creme, crayme, creem, creeme, crem, creyme, kreme
- English: cream (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: crème
- → Swedish: kräm
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.