crampon

See also: crampón

English

Crampons being used to climb ice.

Argent, a heraldic crampon gules.

Etymology

Borrowed from French crampon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæmpɑn/, /ˈkɹæmpən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æmpɑn

Noun

crampon (plural crampons)

1. An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.

   Synonyms: climbing iron, climber

2. (botany) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
3. (heraldry) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.

Translations

attachment to a shoe used for climbing or walking on ice

• Bashkir: тырнаҡ (tırnaq)
• Catalan: tac (ca) m, grampó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰爪

• Czech: mačka (cs)
• Finnish: jäärauta (fi)
• French: crampon (fr) m
• Galician: crampón (gl) m
• German: Steigeisen (de) n, Klettereisen n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἐγκεντρίς f (enkentrís)

• Icelandic: mannbroddar m pl
• Italian: rampone (it) m
• Japanese: アイゼン (ja) (aizen)
• Kannada: ಕೊಕ್ಕೆಯೆತ್ತಿಗೆ (kn) (kokkeyettige)
• Korean: 아이젠 (aijen)
• Macedonian: де́реза f (déreza)
• Polish: rak (pl) m
• Russian: шип (ru) m (šip), ко́шки (ru) f (kóški) (usually plural, of mountain climbers)
• Serbo-Croatian: dereza f
• Slovak: mačky pl
• Spanish: taco (es) m, crampón (es)
• Swedish: stegjärn (sv) n, brodd (sv) c (ice cleat)
• Turkish: tırmanma demiri, krampon (tr)

See also

• overboot, overshoe

Verb

crampon (third-person singular simple present crampons, present participle cramponning or (US) cramponing, simple past and past participle cramponned or (US) cramponed)

1. To walk or climb using crampons.

Further reading

• crampon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French crampe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɑ̃.pɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

crampon m (plural crampons)

1. cleat, crampon (a protrusion on the bottom of a shoe for better traction)
2. spike
3. clinger, hanger-on

Descendants

• → English: crampon
• → Romanian: crampon
• → Spanish: crampón
• → Turkish: krampon

Further reading

• “crampon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French crampon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kramˈpon/

Noun

crampon n (plural crampoane)

1. (rail transport) square-headed spike used to fasten rails on sleepers / railroad ties
2. cleat; crampon (protrusion on the bottom of a shoe for better traction)
3. (botany) crampon (aerial root a climbing plant uses to affix itself to vertical support)

Declension

Declension of crampon

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	crampon	cramponul		crampoane	crampoanele
genitive-dative	crampon	cramponului		crampoane	crampoanelor
vocative	cramponule			crampoanelor

Further reading

• crampon in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)