Definitions for cruces

cruces cru·ces

Spelling: [kroo-seez]
IPA: /ˈkru siz/

Cruces is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in cruces (ccersu).

Definitions for cruces

noun

  1. a plural of crux.
  2. a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point:
  3. a cross.
  4. something that torments by its puzzling nature; a perplexing difficulty.
  5. a city in S New Mexico, on the Rio Grande.

Origin of cruces

1635-45; Latin: stake, scaffold, or cross used in executions, torment; figurative senses perhaps New Latin crux (interpretum) (commentators') torment, a difficult passage in a text; cf.

Examples for cruces

Vos plane qui ligneos deos consecratis, cruces ligneas, ut deorum vestrorum partes, forsitan adoratis.

But we no pay twenty dollars unless you get us to cruces poco pronto, sabe?

At its mouth the Chagre is one-fourth of a mile broad, and at cruces about 150 feet: in its middle course the depth is 24 feet.

cruces quæ fiunt super oblata a sacerdote, non debent fieri manu transversa sed manu recta.

Guillelmum Mari de Honosio arbitrarie puniendum, cruces simplices, peregrinationes minores.

As the train started from cruces, a quiet shower distilled itself.

There are two points at which one may land, viz: the villages of Gorgona and cruces.

About one-third of the people with me died, either at cruces or on the way to Panama.

cruces is a small village, situated on a plain, immediately on the banks of the river, which here are high and sandy.

From cruces to Panama mules were employed for the remainder of the journey.

Word Value for cruces
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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