cresta

Inherited from Latin crista.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɾɛs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɾəs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɾes.ta]

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cresta f (plural crestes)

1. comb, crest (a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles)
2. crest (the ridge or top of a wave)

• “cresta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cresta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cresta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cresta”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Latin crista.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkres.ta/
• Rhymes: -esta
• Hyphenation: cré‧sta

cresta f (plural creste)

1. crest
2. comb (of a chicken etc.)
3. ridge (of a mountain)
4. Mohawk hairstyle

• cresta dell' onda
• cresta del monte
• cresta del gallo

• tresca

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cresta f (plural crestas)

1. crest, ridge

• Rhymes: -ɛstɐ

cresta

1. inflection of crestar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• încresta

Often considered to be from creastă, but more likely ultimately from Latin castrāre through metathesis (and thus possibly a doublet of the borrowing castra). Compare Occitan crestar (“to castrate”), Portuguese crestar (“collect honey from a beehive”). See also the change of 'a' to 'e' in rapidus to repede. For the development of the meaning, compare Abruzzo dialect castrá, Calabrian ncastra, ncastratura.

a cresta (third-person singular present crestează, past participle crestat) 1st conjugation

1. to cut
2. to notch
3. to make incisions

• crestătură
• crestare

• castra

Inherited from Latin crista. Doublet of crista.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾesta/ [ˈkɾes.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: cres‧ta

cresta f (plural crestas)

1. comb (of a chicken or other bird)
2. crest (of an animal)
3. sharp peaks (of a mountain)
4. ridge (of a wave)
5. Mohawk hairstyle

   Synonyms: mohicano, iro

cresta

1. (Chile, vulgar) shit, damn (failure)

• “cresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025