cross – English noun declension

English noun forms of cross

Noun: cross
Singularcross
Pluralcrosses

Sample Sentences

  • Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
  • Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
  • True Cross
  • From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— / The Christians have regained their heritage; / Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, / And many a monastery decks the stage, / And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage. [1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 31:]
  • She made the cross after swearing.
  • She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
  • It's a cross I must bear.
  • Heaven prepares good men with crosses. [1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:]
  • It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughta know [1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:]
  • A quick cross of the road.
  • The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471:]
  • Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler [1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes:]
  • And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. [2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:]
  • More German peril would follow as Joshua Kimmich swung in a cross for Havertz, whose well-placed header was majestically saved by Yahia Fofana. [2026 June 20, Leander Schaerlaeckens, “Deniz Undav’s double earns Germany dramatic late win against Côte d’Ivoire”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:]
  • the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross [1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *kruks /*krukis
4. Latin cruxbor.
5. Old Irish crosbor.
6. Old Norse krossbor.
7. Old English cros
8. Middle English cross
9. English cross
10. From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old English rōd (“cross”); see English rood. Doublet of crouch (“cross”) and crux. Compare Welsh croes, Irish crois.
11. The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
12. Cognates
13. *Icelandic kross (“cross”)
14. *Faroese krossur (“cross”)
15. *Norwegian Nynorsk kross, kors (“cross”)
16. *Danish kors (“cross”)
17. *Swedish kors (“cross”)
18. *North Frisian kross, korss (“cross”)
19. *Saterland Frisian Krjuus, Kjus (“cross”)
20. *West Frisian krús (“cross”)
21. *Dutch kruis (“cross”)
22. *German Low German Krüüz (“cross”)
23. *German Kreuz (“cross”) See: Middle English Nouns 'cross', Old English Nouns 'cros', Latin Nouns 'crux', Middle English Nouns 'rode', Icelandic Nouns 'kross', Faroese Nouns 'krossur', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'kross', Danish Nouns 'kors', Swedish Nouns 'kors', Dutch Nouns 'kruis', German Nouns 'Kreuz'.

Verbs referencing "cross"

Italian Nouns cross, Swedish Nouns cross, Italian Nouns autocross, Old English Nouns cruc, Danish Nouns kryds.