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creastă
crest /ˈkre̯astə/
noun#4223 most common
Also: comb (of a rooster), ridge (of a mountain), crest (of a wave)
Example sentences
Cocoșul are o creastă roșie și mare.
The rooster has a big red comb.
Am văzut o creastă de munte plină de zăpadă.
I saw a snow-covered mountain ridge.
Drumeții au ajuns pe creasta muntelui înainte de apus.
The hikers reached the mountain ridge before sunset.
Valurile își formează creasta chiar înainte de a se prăbuși pe plajă.
The waves form their crest just before crashing on the beach.
Crestele Carpaților oferă o priveliște impresionantă toamna.
The ridges of the Carpathians offer an impressive view in autumn.
Fizicienii au măsurat înălțimea crestei undei pentru a calcula amplitudinea.
Physicists measured the height of the wave's crest to calculate the amplitude.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | creastă | creste |
| Genitive | crestei | crestelor |
| Accusative | creastă | creste |
| Vocative | creasto | crestelor |
Word family
creastă de cocoșcockscomb
crestăturănotch, groove
crestatnotched, serrated
a crestatto notch, to nick
Etymology
Creastă comes from Latin crista, meaning tuft or crest, the same word that gave French crête and English crest by a different route. Latin speakers used crista for the fleshy growth on a rooster's head, and Romanian kept that core sense while extending it to ridges of land and the tops of waves. The origin of the Latin word itself is not settled, so no earlier root is given here.
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