croise
English
Etymology
From French crois (“crusader”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɹɔɪz/
- Rhymes: -ɔɪz
Noun
croise (plural croises) (obsolete)
- A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
French
Verb
croise
- inflection of croiser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Irish
Noun
croise f sg
- genitive singular of cros (“cross; crosspiece; trial, affliction; prohibition”)
Mutation
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| croise | chroise | gcroise |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kroˈise]
Verb
croise
- third-person singular pluperfect indicative of croi
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
croise f sg
- genitive singular of crois (“cross”)