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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.

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.

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

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

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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

• 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/

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• 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.

• → 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)

• 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

• → 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

• “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