Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. · To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream. · To obliterate, to defeat decisively. · To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender).
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream); and native Old English flīete f (“cream”) related to flotian (> modern float) from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
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- Root classification mention*gʰrey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentioncreime, cremeenm
- Derivation mentioncreme, cresmefro
- Derivation mentionχρῖσμαgrc
- Derivation mention*cramacel-gau
- Cognate mentioncramency
- Cognate mentioncrammenbr
- Derivation mention*(s)krama-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionscremmga
- Cognate mentionschramnl
- Cognate mentionkramaslt
- Doublet mentioncremaen
- Doublet mentioncrèmeen
- Cognate mentionrēamang
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