cruces

• (US) enPR: kro͞oʹsēz, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹu.siz/,^[1]

cruces

1. plural of crux^[1]
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 110:

     Others, trained in the interpretation of linguistic cruces in the Odyssey and Beowulf, find it difficult to detect clarity and certainty in instructions like the following (for the operation of a video cassette recorder)[.]

   • 1992, David R. Slavitt (editor and translator), Seneca: The Tragedies (The Johns Hopkins University Press; →ISBN, 080184309X), volume 1, preface, page xvi:

     I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used.

• cercus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkrʊ.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkruː.t͡ʃes]

crucēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crux

• "cruces", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuθes/ [ˈkɾu.θes] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuses/ [ˈkɾu.ses] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uθes (Spain)
• Rhymes: -uses (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: cru‧ces

cruces f pl

1. plural of cruz

cruces m pl

1. plural of cruce

cruces

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of cruzar