crux – Latin noun declension

Noun: crux
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	crux
Plural	crucēs

Genitive

Singular	crucis
Plural	crucum

Dative

Singular	crucī
Plural	crucibus

Accusative

Singular	crucem
Plural	crucēs

Ablative

Singular	cruce
Plural	crucibus

Vocative

Singular	crux
Plural	crucēs

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like crux

sandȳx, sandīx, scolax, smīlax, prōcrāstinātrīx, pōtrīx, auxiliātrīx, senātrīx, adsistrīx, adiūtrīx, ōrātrīx, vēnātrīx, adulterātrīx, perpetrātrīx, sēductrīx, iuvenix, meretrīx, zmīlax, balneātrīx, contemplātrīx, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis
4. Latin crux
5. Inherited from Proto-Italic *kruks or *krukis (it is uncertain whether the original form was an i-stem), of unclear origin. Pokorny connected Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”) with an assumed extension in *-k-; compare Latin circus (“circle”) and curvus (“curve”). This explanation suffers phonetic, morphological and semantic problems. A modern hypothesis connects Irish crúach (“heap, hill”), Gaulish *krouka (“summit”), Proto-Brythonic *krʉg (“small hill; pillar”), Old Norse hrúga (“heap, pile”), and Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap, pile”) and *hrugjaz (“back, spine, ridge”), pointing to Proto-Indo-European *krewk- (“~ heap, hill; back, spine?”), albeit with an unusual root structure and shaky semantics. Alternatively, a loanword from an unidentified or substrate language. See: Irish Nouns 'crúach', Old Norse Nouns 'hrúga'.

Verbs referencing "crux"

English Nouns cruciform, English Nouns cross, Middle English Nouns cross, English Nouns cruise, English Nouns crux, Dutch Nouns crux, French Nouns croix, Italian Nouns croce, Galician Nouns cruz, Old Portuguese Nouns cruz, Portuguese Nouns cruz, Danish Nouns kors, Swedish Nouns kors, German Nouns Kreuz, Old English Nouns cruc, Dutch Nouns kruis, English Nouns crosier, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kryss, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kryss, Swedish Nouns kryss, Czech Nouns kříž, Faroese Nouns krossur, Icelandic Nouns kross, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kross, Romanian Nouns cruce, Finnish Nouns ruksi, Danish Nouns kryds, Portuguese Nouns encruzilhada, Irish Nouns croch, Catalan Nouns creu, Latvian Nouns krusts, English Nouns crunode, Irish Nouns cros, Slovak Nouns kríž, Galician Nouns encrucillada, Middle English Nouns croys.

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