crater
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
crater (plural craters)
- (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
- Synonym: astrobleme
- (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
- The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
- 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
- But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
- (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
- (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
- The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
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TranslationsEdit
astronomy: hemispherical pit
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geology: opening of a volcano
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pit left by an explosion
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VerbEdit
crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)
- To form craters in a surface.
- To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
- Synonyms: implode, hollow out
- 2008 November 25, David Letterman, “‘The Economy Is Exploding’”, in NYTimes blog[1]:
- Yup, John McCain said to me the economy “is about to crater.” You folks worried about the economy? Whoo! Not me.
- 2020 August 6, Kate Conger, “Uber’s Revenue Craters, as Deliveries Surge in Pandemic”, in New York Times[2]:
- Uber said on Thursday that its ride-hailing business had cratered in the second quarter as people traveled less in the pandemic.
- (snowboarding) To crash or fall.
- He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson.
TranslationsEdit
to collapse catastrophically
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Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
crater (plural craters)
- (Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
- 1843, William Hamilton Maxwell, Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches, R. Bentley, page 77:
- I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.
- 1772, David Garrick, The Irish Widow, published 1859, page 611:
- She is a charming crater; I would venture to say that, if I was not her father.
- 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
- Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?
Usage notesEdit
This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing.
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from κεράννυμι (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
crātēr m (genitive crātēris or crātēros); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| Nominative | crātēr | crātērēs crātēres |
| Genitive | crātēris crātēros |
crātērum |
| Dative | crātērī | crātēribus |
| Accusative | crātērem crātēra |
crātērēs crātēras |
| Ablative | crātēre | crātēribus |
| Vocative | crātēr | crātērēs crātēres |
DescendantsEdit
- → English: crater
- → Finnish: krateeri
- → French: cratère
- → German: Krater
- → Serbo-Croatian: кра́тер
- → Russian: кра́тер (kráter)
- → Spanish: cráter
- → Catalan: cràter
- → Galician: cráter
ReferencesEdit
- “crater”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “crater”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “crater”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “crater”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “crater”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
crater n (plural cratere)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of crater
| singular | plural | |||
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| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) crater | craterul | (niște) cratere | craterele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) crater | craterului | (unor) cratere | craterelor |
| vocative | craterule | craterelor | ||