cruces

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: kro͞oʹsēz, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹu.siz/,^[1]

Noun

cruces

1. plural of crux^[1]
   • 1992, David R. Slavitt (editor and translator), Seneca: The Tragedies (The Johns Hopkins University Press; →ISBN, 080184309X), volume 1, preface, page xvi:

     I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used.

References

Anagrams

• cercus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.keːs/, [ˈkrʊ.keːs]

Noun

crucēs

1. nominative plural of crux
2. accusative plural of crux
3. vocative plural of crux

References

• cruces in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology

The noun cruce comes from cruzar, which in turn comes from cruz.

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuθes/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuses/

Noun

cruces f pl

1. plural of cruz

cruces m pl

1. plural of cruce

Verb

cruces

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of cruzar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of cruzar.