cruces
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
/ˈkɹu.siz/
(US)
Definition of cruces
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(form-of, plural)plural of crux
“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)[.]”
“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.”
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noun
-
(form-of, plural)plural of crux
“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)[.]”
“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.”
name
- A surname from Spanish.
- (form-of, plural)plural of Cruce
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Cruces.
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