cruor
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cruor (“blood”). See crude.
Noun
cruor (uncountable)
- The colouring matter of the blood.
- The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cruor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Curro, cruro-
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas), Sanskrit क्रविस् (kravís), क्रूर (krūra), Proto-Slavic *kry, Old English hrǣw (English raw).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkru.or/, [ˈkruɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkru.or/, [ˈkruːor]
Noun
cruor m (genitive cruōris); third declension
- blood, gore
- (figuratively) murder, bloodshed
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cruor | cruōrēs |
Genitive | cruōris | cruōrum |
Dative | cruōrī | cruōribus |
Accusative | cruōrem | cruōrēs |
Ablative | cruōre | cruōribus |
Vocative | cruor | cruōrēs |
Related terms
- cruentātiō
- cruentē
- cruenter
- cruentō
- cruentus
Descendants
- English: cruor
- French: cruor
- Italian: cruore
- Portuguese: cruor
- Spanish: crúor
References
- “cruor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cruor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cruor 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)
- cruor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette