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Yes. The word crux is a Scrabble US word. The word crux is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

CRUX,

3-letter words (3 found)

CRU,CUR,RUC,

2-letter words (2 found)

UR,XU,

You can make 6 words from crux according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of crux

crux rcux curx ucrx rucx urcx crxu rcxu cxru xcru rxcu xrcu cuxr ucxr cxur xcur uxcr xucr ruxc urxc rxuc xruc uxrc xurc

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Definitions and meaning of crux

crux

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kɹʌks/
  • Rhymes: -ʌks

Noun

crux (plural cruxes or cruces)

  1. The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
    Synonyms: core, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist
  2. The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
  3. A puzzle or difficulty.
    • 1860, Marian Evans (translator), The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (originally by David Strauss)
  4. (climbing) The hardest point of a climb.
    • 1973, Pat Armstrong, "Klondike Fever: Seventy Years Too Late", in Backpacker, Autumn 1973, page 84:
      The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
  5. (heraldry) A cross on a coat of arms.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • cross
  • crucial

Descendants

  • → French: crux

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crux or English crux, in the phrase crux interpretum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krʏks/
  • Hyphenation: crux

Noun

crux f (plural cruces or cruxen)

  1. crucial or otherwise serious, difficult problem

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English crux. Doublet of croix, croiseur, and cruiser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁyks/, /kʁœks/

Noun

crux m (plural crux)

  1. (climbing) crux (hardest point of a climb)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kruks or *krukis (it is uncertain whether the original form was an i-stem), of unknown origin. Pokorny connected Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”) with an assumed extension in *-k-; compare Latin circus (“circle”) and curvus (“curve”). This explanation suffers phonetic, morphological and semantic problems. A modern hypothesis connects Irish crúach (“heap, hill”), Gaulish *krouka (“summit”), Proto-Brythonic *krʉg (“small hill; pillar”), Old Norse hrúga (“heap, pile”), and Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap, pile”) and *hrugjaz (“back, spine, ridge”), pointing to Proto-Indo-European *krewk- (“~ heap, hill; back, spine?”), albeit with an unusual root structure and shaky semantics. Alternatively, a loanword from an unidentified or substrate language.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kruks/, [krʊks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kruks/, [kruks]

Noun

crux f (genitive crucis); third declension

  1. wooden frame on which criminals were crucified, especially a cross
  2. (derogatory) gallows bird; one who deserves to be hanged
  3. (figuratively) torture; misery
  4. cross (symbol)
    Ave Crux alba ― Hail thou white Cross

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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References

  • “crux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “crux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crux 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)
  • crux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “crux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “crux”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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