cremor

English

Etymology

Latin ; compare cream.

Noun

cremor (plural cremors)

1. (archaic) cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cremor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cromer

Catalan

Etymology

From cremar +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kɾəˈmo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾeˈmoɾ]

Noun

cremor f (plural cremors)

1. burning

   Synonym: ardor

2. burning sensation

Further reading

• “cremor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Etymology 1

Disputed; possibly one of the following:

• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₃-m- (“porridge, soup”) (compare Proto-Celtic *kurmi (“beer”), Proto-Slavic *kъrmъ (“food, fodder”), Sanskrit करम्भ (karambhá, “groats, gruel”))
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₁erh₂- (“to mix”) (compare Ancient Greek κεράννυμι (keránnumi))
• Per M. de Vaan, derived from the verb crem- (“to burn”), possibly from the same root as carbō (“charcoal”); he also considers Celtic *kurmi a potential cognate.

Noun

cremor m sg (genitive cremōris); third declension

1. Thick juice or broth, gravy
2. Thick juice made by boiling grain, a mash

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	cremor
genitive	cremōris
dative	cremōrī
accusative	cremōrem
ablative	cremōre
vocative	cremor

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cremō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 142
• “cremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cremor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

Verb

cremor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of cremō