crosier
English
/ˈkɹəʊzi.ə/, /ˈkɹoʊʒɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
- (botany) A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead
Etymology
Derived from Latin crux (cross, a cross, wooden frame for execution).
Origin
Latin
crux
Gloss
cross, a cross, wooden frame for execution
Concept
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Person/Thing
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crosiered English
- cruciform English
- crunode English
- crux English
- ruksi Finnish
- *crox Latin
- crucifigo Latin
- crucio Latin
- crux Latin
- Crux German
- croce Italian
- crux Dutch, Flemish
- crucial French
- cruz Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- kryss Norwegian Bokmål
- krzyż Polish
- kryss Norwegian Nynorsk
- cruc Old English
- kors Danish
- kruci Czech
- crois Old French
- encrucillada Galician
- croes Welsh
- cruce Middle Dutch
- chruzi Old High German
- krūzi Old High German
- croch Old Irish
- cros Old Irish
- crūci Old Saxon
- kríž Slovak
- kryžius Lithuanian
- kruze Low German