crispus

Probably from a Proto-Italic *krispos (“curly, crumpled, twisted”), with cognates in Welsh crych (“ripple, wrinkle”), Breton crec'h (“id”). The Italo-Celtic forms seem to trace back to a Proto-Indo-European *kris- (whence also crīnis (“hair of the head”), crista (“crest, plume”)),^[1] which has been tentatively linked further to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

• (Classical Latin) 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

First/second-declension adjective.

• 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