crucifix

English

Etymology

From Middle English crucifix, from Old French crocefis (French crucifix), from Latin crucifixus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuː.sɪˌfɪks/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

crucifix (plural crucifixes)

1. A wooden cross used for crucifixions, as by the Romans.
2. An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.

   Plain crosses are preferred by Protestants, but crucifixes by Catholics.

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:

     Idle thought: Do you suppose a perverted priest has ever tried to stick a crucifix up a kid's ass? Just wondering.

3. (gymnastics) The iron cross, a position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.

Derived terms

• crucifix position
• crucifix toad
• lily crucifix

 

Translations

cross for crucifixion

• Finnish: ristinpuu
• Hungarian: kereszt (hu), keresztfa (hu)
• Indonesian: salib (id)
• Ladino: Kruz f
• Ottoman Turkish: خاچ (haç)
• Yiddish: קרייז (kreyz)

sculptural representation

• Aramaic: צליבא m

  Classical Syriac: ܨܠܝܒܐ m

• Asturian: crucifixu m
• Belarusian: распя́цце n (raspjáccje), распя́цьце n (raspjácʹcje) (Taraškievica), крыж m (kryž), хрэст m (xrest)
• Bulgarian: разпя́тие (bg) n (razpjátie), кръст (bg) m (krǎst)
• Catalan: crucifix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十字架 (zh) (shízìjià)

• Czech: krucifix (cs), kříž (cs) m
• Danish: krucifiks n
• Dutch: kruis (nl) n; crucifix (nl) n, kruisbeeld (nl) n
• Esperanto: krucifikso
• Finnish: krusifiksi (fi), ristiinnaulitunkuva (fi)
• French: croix (fr) f, crucifix (fr) m
• Galician: crucifixo m
• German: Kruzifix (de) n
• Greek: σταυρός (el) m (stavrós)

  Ancient: σταυρός m (staurós)

• Hindi: क्रूस m (krūs), सलीब (hi) m (salīb)
• Hungarian: feszület (hu)
• Icelandic: róðukross m
• Italian: crocifisso (it), crucifisso, crocefisso, croce (it)
• Japanese: 磔刑像 (takukeizō)
• Korean: 십자고상 (sipjagosang)
• Latin: crux (la) f
• Latvian: krucifikss m
• Lithuanian: krucifiksas m
• Macedonian: распетие n (raspetie), крст m (krst)
• Middle English: crucifix
• Norman: crucifix m, cruchefis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krusifiks n

• Ottoman Turkish: خاچ (haç)
• Polish: krucyfiks (pl) m, krzyż (pl) m
• Portuguese: cruz (pt) f; crucifixo (pt) m (symbol)
• Romanian: crucifix (ro) n
• Russian: распя́тие (ru) n (raspjátije), крест (ru) m (krest)
• Slovak: krucifix m, kríž m
• Slovene: križ (sl) m, razpelo (sl) n
• Spanish: crucifijo (es)
• Swedish: krucifix (sv) n
• Tagalog: krusipiho
• Turkish: çarmıh (tr)
• Ukrainian: розп'я́ття n (rozpʺjáttja), хрест m (xrest), криж (uk) m (kryž)
• Yiddish: קרוסיפֿיקס f (krusifiks)
• Yup'ik: kelistaq

gymnastics move — see iron cross

See also

• crucifixion
• crucify

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [kɾu.siˈfiks]

Noun

crucifix m (plural crucifixos)

1. crucifix

   Synonym: santcrist

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch crucifix, from Latin crucifīxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkry.si.fɪks/

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• Hyphenation: cru‧ci‧fix

Noun

crucifix n (plural crucifixen, diminutive crucifixje n)

1. A crucifix.

   Veel christenen hebben een crucifix in hun huis. ― Many Christians have a crucifix in their home.

   Het crucifix is gemaakt van eikenhout. ― The crucifix is made of oak wood.

   Ze kuste het crucifix voordat ze ging slapen. ― She kissed the crucifix before going to sleep.

Synonyms

• kruisbeeld

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French crocefis, crucefix, borrowed from Latin crucifixus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁy.si.fi/

• Audio

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Noun

crucifix m (plural crucifix)

1. crucifix

Related terms

• crucifier
• crucifixion

Further reading

• “crucifix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• crucifixe, crucifyx, crucyfix, crucyfixe, crucyfyx, crusifyx

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French crocefis, crucefix, itself borrowed from Latin crūcifixus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkriu̯sifiks/, /ˈkrusifiks/

Noun

crucifix (plural crucifixes)

1. Christ on the cross.
2. Any depiction of the crucified Christ.
3. A crucifix (cross figure)
4. The Jesus figure on a crucifix.

Descendants

• English: crucifix

References

• “crū̆cifix, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Alternative forms

• cruchefis

Etymology

From Old French crocefis, crucefix, borrowed from Latin crucifixus.

Noun

crucifix m (plural crucifix)

1. (Guernsey, Jersey) crucifix

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French crucifix, from Latin crucifixus.

Noun

crucifix n (plural crucifixe)

1. crucifix

Declension

Declension of crucifix

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) crucifix	crucifixul	(niște) crucifixe	crucifixele
genitive/dative	(unui) crucifix	crucifixului	(unor) crucifixe	crucifixelor
vocative	crucifixule		crucifixelor