croisade

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croisade c. 1575.

Noun

croisade (plural croisades)

  1. (obsolete) A crusade; a holy war.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “croisade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle French croisade (15th century), as it were crois + the suffix -ade. The change in suffix from Old French croisement, croiserie, croisée, is influenced by Old Occitan crozada (13th century) and Old Spanish cruzada (14th century), both reflecting Latin cruciāta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁwa.zad/
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Noun

croisade f (plural croisades)

  1. crusade

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French croisade, from crois.

Noun

croisade f (plural croisades)

  1. crusade (holy war against infidels)

Descendants

  • French: croisade
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