Feminine

crosta

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(feminine) crust (any hard surface layer; surface layer of most breads and pastries)
(feminine) crust (outermost solid layer of a planet)
(feminine) rind (hard surface layer of a cheese)
(feminine) scab (crust over a wound made from clotted blood)

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Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkɾɔs.tə]

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Occitan

Cognate with French

Cognate with Spanish

In summary

Inherited from Latin crusta (“bark, crust, shell”) (compare Occitan crosta, French croûte, Spanish costra), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”). The /ɔ/ is unexpected and perhaps due to influence from other words with similar meanings.