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From Italian crema. Doublet of cream, second-etymology crema, and crème.

crema (countable and uncountable, plural cremas)

1. The light-colored, orangish head of foam on a cup of espresso.

head of foam

• Bulgarian: пя́на (bg) f (pjána)
• Chinese:
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• Finnish: crema (fi)
• French: crème (fr) f
• Polish: caffè crema n

From Spanish crema. Doublet of cream, first-etymology crema, and crème.

crema (uncountable)

1. A Mexican foodstuff, the Mexican version of crème fraîche or sour cream. Its fat content is usually higher than that of sour cream, and it is thinner and less sour.

Mexican foodstuff

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• Chinese:
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• Finnish: crema (fi), meksikolainen hapankerma

• French: crème fraîche (fr) f

• Polish: crema (pl) f

• Carme, McRae, crame, cream, macer, recam

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɾe.mə]

• IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɾe.ma]

Borrowed from French crème.

crema f (plural cremes)

1. crema catalana (a Catalan dessert)
2. pale yellow, the color of crema catalana
3. cream (fat part of milk)
   Synonym: nata
4. cream (skin product)
5. soup with cream
6. custard

• cremós

• descremar

• crem

Deverbal from cremar.

crema f (plural cremes)

1. burn, burning (act or result of burning, e.g. a controlled burn)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

crema

1. inflection of cremar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “crema”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• IPA(key): /ˈkrɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: crè‧ma

Borrowed from French crème.

crema f (plural creme)

1. cream
2. custard

• panna generally refers to physical cream, while crema refers to the flavor of cream. A pint of creamy gelato would be termed crema and not panna.

• crema solare

• cremino

• cremoso

• scremare

• → English: crema

• → Greek: κρέμα (kréma)

• → Turkish: krema

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

crema

1. inflection of cremare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• carme, marce

cremā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cremō

• "crema", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾẽ.mɐ/

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾe.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛ.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛmɐ

• Hyphenation: cre‧ma

crema

1. inflection of cremar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA(key): [ˈkrema]

crema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cremă

• IPA(key): /ˈkɾema/ [ˈkɾe.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: cre‧ma

Borrowed from French crème.

crema f (plural cremas)

1. cream (cosmetic product)
2. (Latin America) cream (dairy product)
   Synonym: (Spain) nata
3. soup with cream
4. custard
5. (Latin America, colloquial) mess, disorder
   Synonym: desorden

• crema agria

• crema al cacao

• crema batida

• crema catalana

• crema cortada

• crema de cacao

• crema hidratante

• crema humectante

• crema pastelera

• cremoso

• pastel de crema de Boston

• ponche crema

• → English: crema

• → Tagalog: krema

• → Turkish: krema

crema (invariable)

1. cream, creamy (cream-colored)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

crema

1. inflection of cremar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Probably a malapropism of French tréma, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma, “perforation, orifice”).

crema f (plural cremas)

1. (rare) dieresis
   Synonym: diéresis

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• “crema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• merca