Adjective: cru
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | cru |
| Singular f. | crúa |
| Plural m. | crus |
| Plural f. | crúas |
Sample Sentences
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acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido (you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of woven cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three of boiled) [1295, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:]
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Et, ãdando ambos muy fortes et muy cruus en sua batalla, ferindose muy sen piadade (And, being both very strong and cruel in their battle, they hurt one another mercilessly) [1348, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 316:]
Adjectives inflected like cru
nu,
cru,
Etymology
13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese cruu, from Latin crūdus, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). See: Latin Adjectives '
crūdus'.
Verbs referencing "cru"
Portuguese Adjectives
cru.
Translations