crisper
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪspə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪspɚ/
Adjective
crisper
Noun
crisper (plural crispers)
- A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
- The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.
- An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.
- (archaic) A device for crisping or curling the hair.
- 1944, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 61, page 51:
- Now she had washed her hair and set it with those tin crispers to which her brother-in-law had objected, and rolled the ends on metal curlers.
Translations
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crispāre. Cf. crêper, which may be an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
Verb
crisper
Conjugation
Conjugation of crisper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | crisper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | crispant /kʁis.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | crispé /kʁis.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | crispe /kʁisp/ |
crispes /kʁisp/ |
crispe /kʁisp/ |
crispons /kʁis.pɔ̃/ |
crispez /kʁis.pe/ |
crispent /kʁisp/ |
| imperfect | crispais /kʁis.pɛ/ |
crispais /kʁis.pɛ/ |
crispait /kʁis.pɛ/ |
crispions /kʁis.pjɔ̃/ |
crispiez /kʁis.pje/ |
crispaient /kʁis.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | crispai /kʁis.pe/ |
crispas /kʁis.pa/ |
crispa /kʁis.pa/ |
crispâmes /kʁis.pam/ |
crispâtes /kʁis.pat/ |
crispèrent /kʁis.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | crisperai /kʁis.pə.ʁe/ |
crisperas /kʁis.pə.ʁa/ |
crispera /kʁis.pə.ʁa/ |
crisperons /kʁis.pə.ʁɔ̃/ |
crisperez /kʁis.pə.ʁe/ |
crisperont /kʁis.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | crisperais /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ |
crisperais /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ |
crisperait /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ |
crisperions /kʁis.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crisperiez /kʁis.pə.ʁje/ |
crisperaient /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | crispe /kʁisp/ |
crispes /kʁisp/ |
crispe /kʁisp/ |
crispions /kʁis.pjɔ̃/ |
crispiez /kʁis.pje/ |
crispent /kʁisp/ |
| imperfect2 | crispasse /kʁis.pas/ |
crispasses /kʁis.pas/ |
crispât /kʁis.pa/ |
crispassions /kʁis.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
crispassiez /kʁis.pa.sje/ |
crispassent /kʁis.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | crispe /kʁisp/ |
— | crispons /kʁis.pɔ̃/ |
crispez /kʁis.pe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “crisper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
crīsper
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of crīspō