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Orthography ID = 1003818

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LEM

crux, crucis

CVR

CVR-

noun (f., 3^rd declension)

a gallows, frame, tree (on which criminals were impaled or hanged)
a cross
torture, trouble, misery, destruction
colloq

Abbreviations

crux ucis, f CVR-, a gallows, frame, tree (on which criminals were impaled or hanged), C.

—A cross: (mereri) crucem, T.: cruci suffixi: in crucem acti, S.: Non pasces in cruce corvos, H.: pretium sceleris, Iu.

—Torture, trouble, misery, destruction: quaerere in malo crucem, T.

—Colloq.: i in malam crucem! go and be hanged, T.