crispus

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with crīnis, crista.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkriːs.pus/, [ˈkriːs̠pʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkris.pus/, [ˈkrispus]

crispus (feminine crispa, neuter crispum); first/second-declension adjective

1. curly; crimped (of hair)
2. tremulous

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• succrispus, subcrispus

• crispō

• “crispus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crispus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crispus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “crispus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “crispus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray