Masculine
cran
- (masculine) notch
- (masculine) safety catch
- (masculine) hole
- (masculine) wave
- (colloquial, masculine) guts, bottle, courage
Frequency
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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