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Crux
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crux
English
Etymology
en la crux a cross.
Pronunciation
en /kɹʌks/ RP
en en-us-crux.ogg US
en en-au-crux.ogg AU
en crux
Proper noun
en constellation A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
en Southern Cross
Derived terms
en Acrux Becrux Cru Crucis Gacrux
Translations
constellation Southern Cross
German
Alternative forms
de Krux
Etymology
de :lbor la:crux
de la crux.
Pronunciation
de /kʁʊks/
de De-Crux.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de ʊks 1
Noun
f.sg
trouble, difficulty, crux
de Knackpunkt Schwierigkeit
de Das ist die Crux an dieser Sache. That is the crux of this matter.
grief
de Not Leid Kummer
de Man hat schon seine Crux mit Fred – er ist schon wieder krank. One has his cross to bear with Fred--he's ill again.
de paleography crux desperationis, an unreadable part in a writing
704 Aber die folgenden Worte passen kaum dazu. So bleibt auch diese crux bestehen. But the following words hardly fit thereunto. Thus this crux bides, too.
de 1999 Michael Hillgruber Die pseudoplutarchische Schrift De Homero - Teil 2: Kommentar zu den Kapiteln 74–218 325 9783110950373 So sollte man es bei einer crux im Text belassen und die verschiedenen Konjekturen nur im Apparat notieren. So it should simply be left as a crux in the text, with the different conjectures only noted in the apparatus.
Usage notes
Duden recommends the spelling de Krux.
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Krux
de
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Cruks
Proper noun
f
pt:
pt constellation Southern Cross constellation
pt Cruzeiro do Sul
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es constellation Southern Cross constellation
es Cruz del Sur