croix
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French croix, from Old French croix, crois, from the Latin crucem. Doublet of crux, croiseur, and cruiser.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
croix f (plural croix)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Haitian Creole: kwa
Further reading edit
- “croix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French crois, from Latin crux, crucem.
Noun edit
croix f (plural croix)
Descendants edit
Old French edit
Noun edit
croix oblique singular, f (oblique plural croix, nominative singular croix, nominative plural croix)
- Alternative form of crois
- c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la lections d'ypocrisie et d'umilité:
- De ceulz qui en croix mis l'avoient
- Of those that they put on the cross