Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe basic, central, or essential point or feature. · The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point. · A puzzle or difficulty. · The hardest point of a climb.
Borrowed from Latin crux (“cross, wooden frame for execution”), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”). Doublet of cross and crouch (“cross”).
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- Root classification mention*(s)ker- (turn)ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentioncruxla
- Derivation mention*(s)ker-ine-pro
- Doublet mentioncrossen
- Doublet mentioncrouchen · cross
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