Statue of Saint Augustine holding a crosier in his right hand.
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From Middle English ; originally referring to the staff bearer, from a merger of Old French words crocier ( “ bearer of a cross ” ) and croisier ( “ one who bears or has to do with a cross ” ) , ultimately from Latin crux ( “ cross ” ) .
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crosier (plural crosiers )
A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd 's crook , or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot , bishop , or archbishop as a symbol of office.
( botany ) A young fern frond , before it has unrolled ; fiddlehead
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staff of a bishop or abbot
Arabic: عَصًا f ( ʕaṣan )
Armenian: ասա ( asa ) , ճոկան (hy) ( čokan )
Middle Armenian: ճոկան ( čokan )
Old Armenian: գաւազան եպիսկոպոսական ( gawazan episkoposakan )
Belarusian: пастара́л ( pastarál )
Breton: bazh-eskob (br)
Catalan: bàcul (ca) m , crossa (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 權杖 / 权杖 ( kyun4 zoeng6 )
Hokkien: 權杖 / 权杖 ( khièn-chhóng )
Mandarin: 權杖 / 权杖 (zh) ( quánzhàng )
Czech: berla (cs) f , berle (cs) f , biskupská berla f
Danish: bispestav
Dutch: bisschopsstaf
Esperanto: episkopa bastono
Faroese: bagal m
French: crosse (fr) f
German: Bischofsstab (de) m , Krummstab m
Greek: ράβδος (el) ( rávdos )
Hebrew: מטה כמורה
Hungarian: pásztorbot (hu) , püspökbot (hu)
Icelandic: biskupsstafur m , krókstafur m , bagall (is) m
Ido: kroso (io)
Irish: bachall f
Old Irish: bachall f
Italian: bastone pastorale m , pastorale (it) m , bacolo (it) m
Korean: 주교 지팡이 ( jugyo jipang'i )
Latin: baculum n
Latvian: gana zizlis
Luxembourgish: Bëschofsstaf m
Macedonian: же́зол m ( žézol )
Malayalam: അംശവടി (ml) ( aṁśavaṭi )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bispestav (no) m
Nynorsk: bispestav m
Old English: hæcce f
Persian: ( archaic ) چوگان (fa) ( čowgân )
Polish: pastorał (pl) m
Portuguese: báculo (pt) m
Romanian: pateriță (ro) f
Russian: по́сох (ru) m ( pósox )
Scottish Gaelic: bachall m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: (please verify ) жезал m
Roman: (please verify ) žezal m
Slovak: berla f , biskupská berla f
Slovene: škofovska palica (sl) f
Spanish: báculo (es) m , báculo pastoral m
Swedish: kräkla (sv) c , biskopsstav (sv) c
Tagalog: bakulo
Turkish: pastoral asa
Ukrainian: пате́ри́ця f ( patérýcja ) , по́сох m ( pósox )
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