crus

Borrowed from Latin crūs.

crus (plural crura)

1. The shin (tibia and fibula)
2. A leglike part; shank

crus

1. plural of cru

• RUCs, curs, rucs, scur, sucr-

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

crus

1. masculine plural of cru

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crus (m-p)

1. masculine plural of cru

crus m pl

1. masculine plural of cru

Unclear. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱruH- based on Old Armenian սրունք (srunkʻ, “leg, shank”).^[1] However, other etymologies have been proposed for the Armenian word, such as a loan from Iranian *sraun-^[2] (cf. Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬌 (sraoni)) among others.^[3] Albanian kërci may also be a cognate.^[4]

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

crūs n (genitive crūris); third declension

1. leg
   • Martialis, Epigrammata

     quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis

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

• crūrālis (Late Latin)
• gallīcrūs

• “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, 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

crus

1. first-person singular preterite of craithe

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

crus

1. masculine plural of cru