croise

See also: croisé and cróise

English

Etymology

From French crois (“crusader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɔɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪz

Noun

croise (plural croises) (obsolete)

1. A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
2. A crusader.
   • 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]. Chapter VII. Reign of Richard I.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 491:

     The conquests of the Croises, extending over Palestine and a part of Syria, had been erected into a sovereignty under the name of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “croise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cerios, Croesi, Crœsi, Recios, cories, cosier, scorie

French

Verb

croise

1. inflection of croiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• croies, reçois

Irish

Noun

croise f sg

1. genitive singular of cros (“cross; crosspiece; trial, affliction; prohibition”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
croise	chroise	gcroise
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kroˈise]

Verb

croise

1. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of croi

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

croise f sg

1. genitive singular of crois (“cross”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
croise	chroise
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.