Noun: cruz
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cruz |
| Plural f | cruzes |
Sample Sentences
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Aos pés da Santa Cruz / Você se ajoelhou / E em nome de Jesus / Um grande amor você jurou (At the foot of the Holy Cross / You kneeled / And in the name of Jesus / You swore a great love) [1959, Marino Pinto, Zé da Zilda, “Aos Pés da Cruz”, in Chega de Saudade, performed by João Gilberto, Odeon Records:]
Nouns inflected like cruz
bissetriz,
meretriz,
bisectriz,
palidez,
polidez,
diretriz,
eleitriz,
codorniz,
pinador,
nitidez,
micromatriz,
esqualidez,
liminar,
perfuratriz,
cupidez,
dura-máter,
perpendicular,
imperatriz,
pia-máter,
aboiz, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cruz, from Latin crucem (“cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”). Doublet of Curuçá and Crux. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cruz', Old Portuguese Nouns '
cruz', Latin Nouns '
crux'.
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