cresme
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBlended from Late Latin crāmum (“cream”) and Ecclesiastical Latin chrisma, from Ancient Greek χρῖσμᾰ (khrîsma, “anointing”), from χρίω (khríō, “to anoint”).
Noun
editcresme 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.