crois

• IPA^(key): /kʁwa/

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• Homophones: croie, croient, croies, croîs, croit, croît, croix

crois

1. inflection of croire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

crois f sg

1. dialectal form of cros (“cross; crosspiece; trial, affliction; prohibition”)
2. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of cros

From Latin crux, crucem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾoi̯s/

crois oblique singular, f (oblique plural crois, nominative singular crois, nominative plural crois)

1. cross
2. crossroads

• croisade

• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: queroix, queroué
• Middle French: croix, crois
  • French: croix
    • Haitian Creole: kwa
• Picard: croé
• Norman: crouaix (Jersey), croués (France), kérouaïe (Guernsey), krwee (Sark)
• Walloon: croes
• → Middle English: croys, crois, creiz
  • Yola: cress, criss

• cros

Originally the dative of cros, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (“cross”). Doublet of croch.

• IPA^(key): /kʰɾɔʃ/

crois f (genitive singular croise, plural croisean)

1. cross (in geometry and religion)