Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crucigerous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cru-ciger-ous
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.

Example Sentences

"But not to look so high as Heaven or the single Quincunx of the Hyades upon the head of Taurus, the Triangle, and remarkable Crusero about the foot of the Centaur; observable rudiments there are hereof in subterraneous concretions, and bodies in the Earth; in the Gypsum or Talcum Rhomboides, in the Favaginites or honey-comb-stone, in the Asteria and Astroites, and in the crucigerous stone of S.Iago of Gallicia."

Etymology

From Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) + -gerous.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: -gerous

Rhymes With

dentigerous armigerous plumigerous ovigerous proligerous cornigerous coralligerous pupigerous calcigerous cirrigerous setigerous lanigerous

Questions

What does crucigerous mean?: Bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
Where does crucigerous come from?: From Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) + -gerous.

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