'Croissant' is French for 'crescent moon' — from Latin 'crescere' (to grow). A pastry shaped like moonlight.
A French crescent-shaped roll made of sweet flaky pastry, often eaten for breakfast.
From French 'croissant' (crescent, growing thing), the present participle of 'croître' (to grow, to increase, to wax — as the moon), from Old French 'creistre,' from Latin 'crēscere' (to grow, to arise, to come into being, to increase), from PIE *ḱerh₃- (to grow, to come into being). The same Latin verb produced 'crescent' (the growing moon), 'increase,' 'decrease,' 'accrue,' 'concrete' (things grown together), 'recruit' (a new growth), and 'crescendo' (a musical growing louder). The pastry takes its name from the crescent shape — the
'Croissant,' 'crescent,' 'crescendo,' 'increase,' 'create,' and 'concrete' all come from Latin 'crēscere' (to grow). A croissant is shaped like a growing moon. A crescent IS a growing moon. A crescendo is growing louder. To increase is to grow into. To create is to cause to grow. And concrete grows together