cruor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cruor (“blood”). See crude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuː.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)

Noun

cruor (uncountable)

1. The colouring matter of the blood.
2. The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.
   • 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 70-71:

     The boy is pinched and bled, heated and cooled, sprinkled with powders, spread with salves and a gritty mucilage of peony seeds and cat’s cruor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cruor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Curro, cruro-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas), Sanskrit क्रविस् (kravís), क्रूर (krūra), Proto-Slavic *kry, Old English hrǣw (English raw).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.or/, [ˈkruɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.or/, [ˈkruːor]

Noun

cruor m (genitive cruōris); third declension

1. blood, gore
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.201–202:

     [...] pecudumque cruōre / pingue solum [...].

     [The kingdom of Iarbas had 100 altars:] and with the blood [of sacrificial] beasts the soil [was] rich [...].
     (See: Iarbas.)

2. (figuratively) murder, bloodshed

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cruor	cruōrēs
Genitive	cruōris	cruōrum
Dative	cruōrī	cruōribus
Accusative	cruōrem	cruōrēs
Ablative	cruōre	cruōribus
Vocative	cruor	cruōrēs

Related terms

• cruenter
• cruentus
• cruentātiō
• cruentē
• cruentō

 

Descendants

• English: cruor
• French: cruor
• Italian: cruore
• Portuguese: cruor
• Spanish: crúor

References

• “cruor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cruor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cruor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cruor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.