croix

Inherited from Middle French croix, from Old French croix, crois, from the Latin crucem. Doublet of crux, croiseur, and cruiser.

• IPA^(key): /kʁwa/

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• Homophones: croie, croient, croies, crois, croit, croîs, croît

croix f (plural croix)

1. cross (shape)
2. (heraldry) a representation of a cross; the cross as a heraldic symbol

• croisade
• croiser
• cruciforme

• Haitian Creole: kwa

• “croix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• crois

From Old French crois, from Latin crux, crucem.

croix f (plural croix)

1. cross

• French: croix
  • Haitian Creole: kwa

croix oblique singular, f (oblique plural croix, nominative singular croix, nominative plural croix)

1. 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