# crest
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English creste, from Old French creste (modern French crête) and perhaps continuing Old English cræsta (“crest, tuft, plume”); both ultimately from Vulgar Latin *cresta, from Latin crista. Doublet of crista.
The informal meaning “design, logo” (sense 11) stems from a misinterpretation of the heraldic sense 4, which specifically refers to the object placed on top of the helm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɹɛst/
* Rhymes: -ɛst
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

crest (plural crests)
* The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
* A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
* The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
* (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
* The upper curve of a horse's neck.
* The ridge or top of a wave.
* The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
* The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
* The top line of a slope or embankment.
* (anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.
* (informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
** 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club‎:Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
* Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.

#### Synonyms

* (skin on head of birds): comb, cockscomb

#### Coordinate terms

* (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle

#### Derived terms

* crestal
* crest cloud
* crestfallen
* crestfish
* crestie
* crestless
* crestlike
* crestline
* crest-tailed mulgara
* crest tile
* cresyl
* flamecrest
* great crest
* helmetcrest
* hillcrest
* iliac crest
* increst
* infratemporal crest
* interior crest
* neural crest
* neural crest syndrome
* neurocrest
* Pacific Crest
* plovercrest
* ride the crest of the wave
* sagittal crest
* Scotch crest
* undercrest

#### Translations
### Verb

crest (third-person singular simple present crests, present participle cresting, simple past and past participle crested)
* (intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
* (transitive) To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain).
** 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎:the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.
* (transitive) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world.
** 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk:groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow
* (transitive) To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:Like as the shining skie in summers night, / What time the dayes with scorching heat abound, / Is creasted all with lines of firie light

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* rects, CERTs, certs, RTECS

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* crescu, acrescu

### Etymology

From Latin crēscō. Compare Romanian crește, cresc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kreˈst]

### Verb

crest first-singular present indicative (past participle crãscute)
* to grow

#### Related terms

* crãshteri
* crãscut