Italian–English dictionary

credere

(ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

credibile

Deserving of trust, reliable.

credibilità

The state or quality of being believable.

credibilmente

In a credible manner; believably.

crediti

(television/film, usually, in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.

credito

Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

creditore

(finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.

creditrice

(finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.

credo

(uncountable) Religious faith.

credulona

(colloquial, pejorative) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

credulone

(colloquial, pejorative) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

crema

A balm or something that soothes.

crema pasticcera

Cream used by confectioners to make pies, etc.

crema solare

A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.

cremare

(transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

crematoio

A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.

crematorio

A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.

cremazione

A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.

cremisi

A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.

Cremlino

The Moscow Kremlin; a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia that serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.

cren

(countable) A plant of the mustard family, Armoracia rusticana, cultivated for its edible root.

creolo

A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country. [from 17th c.]

crepa

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

crepacuore

Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.

crepare

(slang) To die.

crepitare

(intransitive) To make dull explosive sounds.

crepitio

A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.

crepito

(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.

crepuscolare

(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

crepuscolo

(now, _, rare) Twilight.

crescente

(dated, rare) marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon.

crescere

To raise or rear (children).

crescita

raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.

cresima

(ecclesiastical) The sacrament of applying chrism to complete baptism in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.

cresimare

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

crespella

A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.

crespo

A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.

crespolino

(countable, and, uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

cresta

A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.

Creta

An island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece.

cretese

Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.

cretinata

Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

cretino

(derogatory) Characteristic of a cretin; very stupid.

cribbio

(chiefly, British, informal, mildly, blasphemous) Used to show anger or disappointment: damn

cric

A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]

cricca

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

cricchetto

A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

criceto

(zoology) Any member of the Cricetidae, a family of rodents.

cricket

A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).

crimeana

Native or inhabitant of the Crimea.

crimeano

Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov.

criminale

A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

criminalità

(uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

crimine

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

criminologia

The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour.

crimpare

(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

crinale

A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.

crine

The upper curve of a horse's neck.

criniera

The upper curve of a horse's neck.

criogenico

Of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures.

cripta

An underground vault.

cripto

(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol Kr) with an atomic number of 36. It is a colourless, odourless noble gas that only reacts with fluorine. It is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere.

criptovaluta

A digital currency based on a cryptographic system, usually having no central issuing or regulating authority.

crisalide

The pupa of a butterfly or moth, particularly bare and hanging or girdled, as opposed to enclosed in a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.

crisantemo

Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads.

crisi

(medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.

crisi di astinenza

The physiological effects of such a withdrawal.

cristallino

Visually clear, a sharp image, of high acuity.

cristiana

(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.

Cristianesimo

An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.

cristianità

The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth. [from 14th c.]

cristiano

(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.

Cristina

A en given name.

Cristo

(arts) A figure or other artistic depiction of Jesus Christ.

Cristoforo Colombo

A person who makes a great discovery.

criterio

A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

critica

(uncountable) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed

critica avversa

(figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism. [from 1963]

critica entusiasta

(informal, countable) An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).

criticamente

In a critical manner; with, or in terms of, criticism.

criticare

To find fault (with something).

criticismo avverso

(figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism. [from 1963]

critico

(countable) One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

crittografia

The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.

crivellare

(transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

crivello

A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

croata

An inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent.

croato

An inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent.

Croazia

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Croatia. Capital and largest city: Zagreb. Part of Yugoslavia until 1991.

croccante

(dated) Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete) , of a person: having hair curled in this manner.

croccantino

Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.

croccare

To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

crocchetta

(culinary) A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

crocchia

A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

crocco

A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.

croccolare

To flow with a bubbling sound.

croce

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

croce gammata

(countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.

crocefiggere

To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.

crocefisso

An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.

crociato

Having the shape of a cross.

crocicchio

(figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.

crociera

A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

crocifiggere

To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.

crocifisso

that has been subject to crucifixion

croco

A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.

crocoite

(mineral) A rare red mineral; lead chromate, PbCrO4.

crogiolarsi

(figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (Usually followed by "in".)

crogiolo

A crucible, or similar pot, used to fuse mixtures of metals etc.

croissant

A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.

crollare

(intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

crollo

The act of collapsing.

croma

(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

cromare

(transitive) To plate with chrome.

cromatografia

(analytical chemistry) Any of various techniques for the qualitative or quantitative separation of the components of mixtures of compounds; all characterized by the use of a mobile phase (gas or liquid) moving relative to a stationary phase (liquid or solid) – the differences between the rates of migration of the compounds between the two phases affect the separation.

cromo

A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.

cromosoma

(cytology, genetics) A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.

cronaca

A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

cronicamente

In a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree.

Croniche

(book of the bible) A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.

cronista

A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

Crono

(Greek god) The personification of time.

cronologia

(countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

cronologicamente

(manner) In a chronological manner; with reference to time.

cronologico

(films, shows, books, etc) Relating to the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur within a story, rather than the order in which they are released.

cronologista

A person skilled in chronology.

cronologo

A person skilled in chronology.

cronometrare

(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

cronometria

(countable, uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

cronometro

A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

croscè

(sewing) A form of needlework that is made by looping thread with a hooked needle.

cross

(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

crosta

A crude or amateurish painting.

crostaceo

Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice, traditionally excluding hexapods.

crostata

A kind baked tart of Italian origin, made with shortcrust pastry spread over a baking sheet, then covered with a layer of jam and then decorated with thin strips of the same dough, placed crosswise to form diamonds.

crotalo

Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

crucca

(UK, offensive, ethnic slur) A German person, usually male.

cruccio

Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

crucco

(UK, offensive, ethnic slur) A German person, usually male.

cruciale

Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.

crucifera

Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes

crucifisso

An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.

cruciforme

(archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.

cruciverba

(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.

crudele

Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.

crudelmente

In a cruel manner.

crudo

Lacking concealing elements.

cruento

Covered in blood.

crumira

A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

crumiro

A strikebreaker.