cruces

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US/ˈkɹu.siz/

proper noun

A surname from Spanish.

Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

cruces1

noun
  1. pluralplural of crux

    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.

    1992, David R. Slavitt (editor and translator), Seneca: The Tragedies (The Johns Hopkins University Press; →ISBN, 080184309X), volume 1, preface, page xvi
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    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)[.]

    1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 110

Cruces2

proper nounCruces (plural Cruceses)

plural Cruceses

  1. A surname from Spanish.

Cruces3

proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Cruce

Origin

  1. SpanishCruces
  2. EnglishCruces

Borrowed from Spanish Cruces.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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