croisade
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French croisade c. 1575.
Noun
croisade (plural croisades)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “croisade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French croisade (15th century), as it were crois + the suffix -ade. The change in suffix from Old French croisement, croiserie, croisée, is influenced by Old Occitan crozada (13th century) and Spanish cruzada (14th century), both reflecting Latin cruciāta.
Pronunciation
Noun
croisade f (plural croisades)
Related terms
Further reading
- “croisade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French croisade, from crois.
Noun
croisade f (plural croisades)
- crusade (holy war against infidels)
Descendants
- French: croisade
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