Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.
The cross on which Jesus died and, in metonymical uses, such as to refer to Christ's suffering in general. · A settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB5062). · A hamlet in St Dominick parish, east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4067) · A hamlet in Georgeham parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4539).
* As an English surname, from the noun cross, as in crossroads. Also a calque of this word in various European languages, such as French Lacroix, German Kreutz, Serbo-Croatian Križ. Compare Crouch, Crozier, Kriz. * As an Irish surname, shortened from McCrossen. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kross, from Middle Low German krus (“pitcher, vessel”), which is possibly an old Germanic borrowing of Ancient Greek κρωσσός (krōssós, “pitcher, pail, urn”). Also a variant of Kress.
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