cruise
English
/kɹuːz/
noun
Definitions
- A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
- (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
- (US) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish kruisen (cross, sail around, traverse, make a cross, intersect) derived from Middle Dutch cruce derived from Latin crux (cross, a cross, wooden frame for execution).
Origin
Latin
crux
Gloss
cross, a cross, wooden frame for execution
Concept
Semantic Field
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Person/Thing
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autocruise English
- battle-cruiser English
- crosier English
- cruciform English
- cruisegoer English
- cruiselike English
- cruiser English
- cruiserweight English
- cruiseway English
- cruisewear English
- cruisey English
- cruisy English
- crunode English
- crux English
- goer English
- starcruiser English
- supercruise English
- way English
- ruksi Finnish
- *crox Latin
- crucifigo Latin
- crucio Latin
- crux Latin
- Crux German
- croce Italian
- bekruisen Dutch, Flemish
- cruise Dutch, Flemish
- cruiseboot Dutch, Flemish
- cruiseschip Dutch, Flemish
- crux Dutch, Flemish
- doorkruisen Dutch, Flemish
- kruis Dutch, Flemish
- kruisen Dutch, Flemish
- kruiser Dutch, Flemish
- kruising Dutch, Flemish
- kruispunt Dutch, Flemish
- kruisraket Dutch, Flemish
- crucial French
- круиз Russian
- cruz Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- cruise Norwegian Bokmål
- kryss Norwegian Bokmål
- krzyż Polish
- cruise Norwegian Nynorsk
- kryss Norwegian Nynorsk
- cruc Old English
- kors Danish
- kruci Czech
- crois Old French
- encrucillada Galician
- croes Welsh
- cruce Middle Dutch
- crucen 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