cruces

See also: Cruces and crucés

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cruces

1. plural of crux
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 110:

     Others, trained in the interpretation of linguistic cruces in the Odyssey and Beowulf, find it difficult to detect clarity and certainty in instructions like the following (for the operation of a video cassette recorder)[.]

   • 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.

Anagrams

• cercus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.keːs/, [ˈkrʊkeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.t͡ʃes/, [ˈkruːt͡ʃes]

Noun

crucēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crux

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈkɾuθes/ [ˈkɾu.θes]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈkɾuses/ [ˈkɾu.ses]
• Rhymes: -uθes
• Rhymes: -uses
• Syllabification: cru‧ces

Noun

cruces f pl

1. plural of cruz

Noun

cruces m pl

1. plural of cruce

Verb

cruces

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of cruzar