croix
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French croix, from Old French croix, crois, from the Latin crucem. Doublet of crux, croiseur, and cruiser.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcroix f (plural croix)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Haitian Creole: kwa
Further reading
edit- “croix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old French crois, from Latin crux, crucem.
Noun
editcroix f (plural croix)
Descendants
editOld French
editNoun
editcroix 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
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