cruce

cruce is a Latin form of crux, meaning “cross; torture, misery (abi in malam crucem: go hang!)”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.9: … scelus concepisse,—cum fana spoliarit, cum tot homines innocentis necarit, cum civis Romanos morte, cruciatu, cruce adfecerit, cum praedonum duces accepta pecunia dimiserit,—quam eos, si qui istum tot tantis tam nefariis scel …

All forms of crux (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.