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Is crus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crus is a Scrabble US word. The word crus is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is crus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crus is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Yes. The word crus is a Words With Friends word. The word crus is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

CRUS,CURS,RUCS,SCUR,

3-letter words (4 found)

CRU,CUR,RUC,SUR,

2-letter words (2 found)

UR,US,

You can make 10 words from crus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crus

crus

English

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

  • RUCs, curs, rucs, scur, sucr-

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɾus]

Adjective

crus

  1. masculine plural of cru

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

crus (m-p)

  1. masculine plural of cru

Participle

crus m pl

  1. masculine plural of cru

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkruːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkrus]

Noun

crūs n (genitive crūris); third declension

  1. leg
    • Martialis, Epigrammata
      quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis

Declension

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

Derived terms

  • crūrālis (Late Latin)
  • gallīcrūs

References

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

crus

  1. first-person singular preterite of craithe

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -us, (Portugal) -uʃ
  • Homophones: cruz, Cruz
  • Hyphenation: crus

Adjective

crus

  1. masculine plural of cru

Source: wiktionary.org