Crux

See also: crux

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crux (“a cross”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹʌks/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: crux

Proper noun

Crux

1. (astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.

   Synonym: Southern Cross

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Acrux
• Becrux
• Cru
• Crucis
• Gacrux

Translations

constellation

• Catalan: Creu del Sud (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南十字座 (zh) (Nánshízìzuò)

• Danish: Sydkorset
• Finnish: Etelän risti (fi)
• French: Croix du Sud (fr)
• German: Kreuz des Südens (de) n
• Greek: Σταύρος του Νότου m (Stávros tou Nótou)
• Hungarian: Dél Keresztje (hu)
• Irish: an Chros f, Cros an Deiscirt f
• Italian: Croce del Sud f
• Japanese: みなみじゅうじ座 (ja), 南十字座 (ja) (みなみじゅうじざ)
• Kazakh: Оңтүстік Крест (Oñtüstık Krest)
• Korean: 남십자(南十字)자리 (Namsipjajari)
• Malay: bintang pari, bintang tohok, palang selatan
• Maori: Te Punga, Māhutonga
• Polish: Krzyż Południa (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cruzeiro do Sul (pt)
• Russian: Южный Крест (ru) (Južnyj Krest)
• Spanish: Crux
• Tagalog: Kamaliing

German

Alternative forms

• Krux

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁʊks/

• Audio:

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Noun

Crux f (genitive Crux, no plural)

1. crux desperationis, an unreadable part in a writing
   • 1913, Theodor Nöldeke, “Anzeigen: Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. Hg. von der Generalverwaltung der Kgl. Museen zu Berlin. Bd. IV. Sabaische, griechische, und altabessinische Inschriften. Von Enno Littmann. Mit 6 Tafeln, 1 Karte und 109 Textabbildungen. Berlin 1913. (94 S. Folio.) M. 17.—.”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1], volume 67, page 704:

     Aber die folgenden Worte passen kaum dazu. So bleibt auch diese crux bestehen.

     But the following words hardly fit thereunto. Thus this crux bides, too.

2. trouble, difficulty, crux

   Synonyms: Knackpunkt, Schwierigkeit

   Das ist die Crux an dieser Sache.

   That is the crux of this matter.

3. grief

   Synonyms: Not, Leid, Kummer

   Man hat schon seine Crux mit Fred – er ist schon wieder krank.

   One has his cross to bear with Fred--he's ill again.

Usage notes

Duden recommends the spelling Krux.

Declension

Declension of Crux [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Crux
genitive	einer	der	Crux
dative	einer	der	Crux
accusative	eine	die	Crux

Further reading

• “Crux” in Duden online
• Crux on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuks/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾuks/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾukʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾukʃ/

Proper noun

Crux f

1. (astronomy) Southern Cross (constellation)

   Synonym: Cruzeiro do Sul

Spanish

Proper noun

Crux f

1. (astronomy) Southern Cross (constellation)

   Synonym: Cruz del Sur