cru

Etymology

Borrowed from French cru. Doublet of crude.

Pronunciation

• Homophones: crew, crewe, Crewe

Noun

cru (plural crus)

1. A grade or class of wine

   premier cru

Anagrams

• RUC, cur, ruc

Etymology

From a variant of Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan crus), from Latin crūdus (compare French cru, Spanish crudo).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾu/
• Rhymes: -u

Adjective

cru (feminine crua, masculine plural crus, feminine plural crues)

1. raw

Etymology

From French.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

cru (not comparable)

1. crude, coarse

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /kʁy/
• Homophone: crû

Etymology 1

From Middle French crud, from Old French cru, creu, from Latin crūdus.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Nominal use of crû, past participle of croître.

Further reading

• “cru” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cruu, from Latin crūdus, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾu/

Adjective

cru m (feminine singular crúa, masculine plural crus, feminine plural crúas)

1. raw; unprocessed
   • 1295, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:

     acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido

     you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of weaved cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three boiled

2. (dated) cruel
   • 1348, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 316:

     Et, ãdando ambos muy fortes et muy cruus en sua batalla, ferindose muy sen piadade

     And, being both very strong and cruel in their battle, they hurt one another mercilessly

References

• “cruu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cruu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cru” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cru” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “cru” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

Borrowed from French cru. Doublet of crudo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

cru m (invariable)

1. cru

Alternative forms

• creu

Etymology

From Latin crudus.

Adjective

cru m (oblique and nominative feminine singular crue)

1. raw (uncooked)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cruu, from Latin crūdus, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾu/
• Hyphenation: cru
• Rhymes: -u

Adjective

cru (feminine singular crua, masculine plural crus, feminine plural cruas, comparable)

1. raw (uncooked, unprocessed)