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Latin
Pronunciation
Participle
cruciāta
- inflection of cruciātus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
cruciātā
- ablative feminine singular of cruciātus
Noun
cruciāta f (genitive cruciātae); first declension
- a crusade
Usage notes
The secondary meaning of cruciātus "marked by a cross" and "crusader; crusade" develops in the 12th to 13th centuries and is often spelled with x (i.e. cruxiatus, also cruxatus, croxatus and variants) in Middle Latin. The feminine cruxata (for cruciāta) in the sense of "a crusade" is recorded in the 1280s.
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch vol. 2 (1999), s.v. "cruciatus"
- Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, éd. augm., Niort : L. Favre, 1883‑1887, t. 2, col. 629a, s.v. "Cruciatæ"