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cruci

cruci is a Latin form of crux, meaning “cross; torture, misery (abi in malam crucem: go hang!)”. It is the dative singular masculine adjective.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Suetonius, Divus Julius 74.1: … ulciscendo natura lenissimus piratas, a quibus captus est, cum in dicionem redegisset, quoniam suffixurum se cruci ante iurauerat, iugulari prius iussit, deinde suffigi; Cornelio Phagitae, cuius quondam nocturnas insidias ae …

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.13.7: Cruci suffixi luerunt poenas numini.

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.