cruditate
Latin
Noun
crūditāte
- ablative singular of crūditās
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French crudité. An older variant, crudătate, might have come directly from Latin crūditātem. Equivalent to crud + -itate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kru.diˈta.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: cru‧di‧ta‧te
Noun
cruditate f (plural crudități)
- (in the plural) crudités (fresh or raw vegetables or fruit)
- (rare, uncountable) the state of being raw; rawness
- (figurative, countable, dated) crude expression
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | cruditate | cruditatea | crudități | cruditățile | |
| genitive-dative | crudități | crudității | crudități | crudităților | |
| vocative | cruditate, cruditateo | crudităților | |||
Related terms
Further reading
- “cruditate”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025