Crux
See also: crux
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹʌks/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: crux
Proper noun
Crux
Synonyms
Translations
constellation
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German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁʊks/
Audio (file)
Noun
Crux f (genitive Crux, no plural)
- crux desperationis, an unreadable part in a writing
- 1913, Theodor Nöldeke, “Anzeigen: Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. Hg. von der Generalverwaltung der Kgl. Museen zu Berlin. Bd. IV. Sabaische, griechische, und altabessinische Inschriften. Von Enno Littmann. Mit 6 Tafeln, 1 Karte und 109 Textabbildungen. Berlin 1913. (94 S. Folio.) M. 17.—.”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 67, page 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.
- trouble, difficulty, crux
- Synonyms: Knackpunkt, Schwierigkeit
- Das ist die Crux an dieser Sache.
- That is the crux of this matter.
- grief
Usage notes
Duden recommends the spelling Krux.
Declension
Further reading
- “Crux” in Duden online
- Crux on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾuks/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkɾukʃ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɾukʃ/
Spanish
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