crus

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See also: crûs

English

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin crūs.

Noun

crus (plural crura)

  1. The shin (tibia and fibula)
  2. A leglike part; shank

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

crus

  1. plural of cru

Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

crus

  1. masculine plural of cru

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

crus (m-p)

  1. masculine plural of cru

Verb

crus m pl

  1. masculine plural of the past participle of croire

Latin

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱruH- based on Old Armenian սրունք (srunkʻ, “leg, shank”).[1] However, other etymologies have been proposed for the Armenian word, such as a loan from Iranian *sraun-[2] (cf. Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬌 (sraoni)) among others.[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

crūs n (genitive crūris); third declension

  1. leg

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crūs crūra
Genitive crūris crūrum
Dative crūrī crūribus
Accusative crūs crūra
Ablative crūre crūribus
Vocative crūs crūra

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
  2. ^ Robert S. P. Beekes, “Historical Phonology of Classical Armenian”, in Armeniaca: Comparative Notes. With an Appendix on the Historical Phonology of Classical Armenian by Robert S.P. Beekes, ed. Frederik Kortlandt (Ann Arbor: Caravan, 2003): 175, 196.
  3. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “srun-k‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 586

Further reading

  • “crus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “crus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crus 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)
  • crus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “crus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norman

Verb

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  1. first-person singular preterite of craithe

Portuguese

Adjective

crus

  1. (deprecated template usage) Masculine plural of adjective cru.
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