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Latin
Etymology
From crista (“the comb or tuft on the head of animals; tuft of leaves on plants; crest of a helmet”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cristātus (feminine cristāta, neuter cristātum); first/second-declension adjective
- That which has a tuft or crest—tufted, crested, plumed.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “cristatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cristatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cristatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cristatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.