cristatus

Latin

Etymology

From crista (“the comb or tuft on the head of animals; tuft of leaves on plants; crest of a helmet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [krɪsˈtaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [krisˈt̪aː.t̪us]

Adjective

cristātus (feminine cristāta, neuter cristātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. That which has a tuft or crest—tufted, crested, plumed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cristātus	cristāta	cristātum		cristātī	cristātae	cristāta
genitive	cristātī	cristātae	cristātī		cristātōrum	cristātārum	cristātōrum
dative	cristātō	cristātae	cristātō		cristātīs
accusative	cristātum	cristātam	cristātum		cristātōs	cristātās	cristāta
ablative	cristātō	cristātā	cristātō		cristātīs
vocative	cristāte	cristāta	cristātum		cristātī	cristātae	cristāta

Related terms

• crista
• cristula

Descendants

• Italian: crestato
• → English: cristate

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.