crescent

• n. 三日月型；イスラム教のシンボル；トルコの三日月型の紋章
• adj.三日月形；徐々に増加する
• vt. 三日月で飾る; 三日月形にする
• n. （三日月形の）人名；（フランス語の）三日月形

PIE*kerの「創造する」「成長する」が語源で、語源的にはcreateと同じ。最初は月の満ち欠けで、月が欠けている状態から増える状態に変わることを指したが、後にこの満ち欠けの形状を指す言葉として誤って使われるようになった。

crescent

crescent: [14] Crescent is one of a wide range of words (including create, crescendo, concrete, crew, accretion, croissant, increase, and recruit) bequeathed to English by the Latin verb crēscere ‘grow’. In the case of crescent, it came in the form of the present participial stem crēscent-, which passed into English via Old French creissant and Anglo-Norman cressaunt.

Its use in the Latin phrase luna crescens ‘waxing moon’ led later to its application to the shape of the new moon, hence the modern meaning of crescent. The modern French form croissant has given English the term for a crescent-shaped puffpastry roll [19], so named allegedly from its original manufacture following the defeat of the Turkish besiegers of Budapest in 1686, whose Muslim symbol was the crescent.
=> accretion, create, creature, crew, croissant, increase, recruit

crescent (n.)

late 14c., "crescent-shaped ornament," from Anglo-French cressaunt, from Old French creissant "crescent of the moon" (12c., Modern French croissant), from Latin crescentum (nominative crescens), present participle of crescere "come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength," from PIE root *ker- (3) "to grow" (cognates: Latin Ceres, goddess of agriculture, creare "to bring forth, create, produce;" Greek kouros "boy," kore "girl;" Armenian serem "bring forth," serim "be born").

Applied in Latin to the waxing moon, luna crescens, but subsequently in Latin mistaken to refer to the shape, not the stage. The original Latin sense is preserved in crescendo. A badge or emblem of the Turkish sultans (probably chosen for its suggestion of "increase"); figurative sense of "Muslim political power" is from 1580s, but modern writers often falsely associate it with the Saracens of the Crusades or the Moors of Spain. Horns of the waxing moon are on the viewer's left side; those of the waning moon are on his right.

1. They decided a housing co-operative was the way to regenerate Ormiston Crescent .

彼らは最終的に住宅協同組合を通じてオミストン?マンスリー?ストリートを再建することにした。

2.A glittering Islamic crescent tops the mosque.

三日月マークがモスクの先端でキラキラしています。

3.I live at 7 Park Crescent .

私はパーカー新月街7号に住んでいます。

4.A crescent moon peeped out from behind the clouds.

三日月が雲から現れる。

5.The moon was a brightly shining crescent .

その夜の月はキラキラと輝く三日月だった。