When you hear 'crust' are you hearing English or Latin?

'Crust' is a word borrowed from Latin 'crusta'. The word entered the English language some time around the 14th century.

crust [noun] [14th century]

• the hardened exterior or surface part of bread
• a piece of this or of bread grown dry or hard
• the pastry cover of a pie
• a hard or brittle external coat or covering
• as

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note: From Latin crusta (hard coating/shell) entering English via Anglo-French/Old French crouste/cruste in the 14th century meaning the hard outer layer of bread with deeper roots in the Proto-Indo-European root *kreus- meaning to form a crust or begin to freeze linking it to words for frost and ice.
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin 'crusta;' akin to Old English 'hrūse' earth, Greek 'kryos' icy cold, 'krystallos' ice, crystal

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