# crus
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin crūs.

#### Noun

crus (plural crura)
* The shin (tibia and fibula)
* A leglike part; shank

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

crus
* plural of cru

### Anagrams

* RUCs, curs, rucs, scur, sucr-

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɾus]

### Adjective

crus
* masculine plural of cru

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

crus (m-p)
* masculine plural of cru

### Participle

crus m pl
* masculine plural of cru

## Latin
### Etymology

Unclear. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱruH- based on Old Armenian սրունք (srunkʻ, “leg, shank”). However, other etymologies have been proposed for the Armenian word, such as a loan from Iranian *sraun- (cf. Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬌 (sraoni)) among others. Albanian kërci may also be a cognate.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kruːs/, [kruːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /krus/, [krus]

### Noun

crūs n (genitive crūris); third declension
* leg
** Martialis, Epigrammata
    quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | crūs | crūra |
| Genitive | crūris | crūrum |
| Dative | crūrī | crūribus |
| Accusative | crūs | crūra |
| Ablative | crūre | crūribus |
| Vocative | crūs | crūra |

#### Derived terms

* crūrālis (Late Latin)
* gallīcrūs

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2003) “Historical phonology of Classical Armenian”, in Frederik Kortlandt, Armeniaca: comparative notes, Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, pages 175, 196
* ↑ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “srun-k‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 586
* ↑ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 224

### Further reading

* “crus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “crus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* crus 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)
* crus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “crus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

## Norman
### Verb

crus
* first-person singular preterite of craithe

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾu(j)s/ [ˈkɾu(ɪ̯)s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾu(j)s/ [ˈkɾu(ɪ̯)s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈkɾu(j)ʃ/ [ˈkɾu(ɪ̯)ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾuʃ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -us, (Portugal) -uʃ
* Homophones: cruz, Cruz
* Hyphenation: crus

### Adjective

crus
* masculine plural of cru