cruor

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cruor (“blood”). See crude.

Pronunciation

Noun

cruor (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The colouring matter of the blood.
  2. The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.
    • 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 70-71:
      The boy is pinched and bled, heated and cooled, sprinkled with powders, spread with salves and a gritty mucilage of peony seeds and cat’s cruor.

Derived terms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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

Noun

cruor m (genitive cruōris); third declension

  1. blood, gore
  2. (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

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.
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