Etymology

cross-

Today it means: Shaped like a cross or X; crossing lines. Full definition →

Middle English cros- ← Old English cros ← Old Norse kross
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-der.?
  2. Proto-Italic*kruks /*krukis
  3. Latincrux
  4. Old Irishcros
  5. Old Norsekross
  6. Old Englishcros
  7. Middle Englishcross
  8. Middle Englishcros-
  9. English todaycross-

From Middle English cros-, crosse- (“relating to a cross, forming a cross, in the shape of a cross or x”), from the noun (see cross) and also from across.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.