Masculine

cran

Meaning

  1. (masculine) notch
  2. (masculine) safety catch
  3. (masculine) hole
  4. (masculine) wave
  5. (colloquial, masculine) guts, bottle, courage

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kʁɑ̃/
Etymology

Deverbal of créner (“to kern”), from crenedes (“notched”), from Vulgar Latin *crinare, probably of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *krini-, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate”). Or, less likely, from Latin cernō (“to separate”), itself from the same root.

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