crosier

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹəʊzi.ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹəʊʒə/
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• US: krōʹzhər
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• US: /ˈkɹoʊʒɚ/
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• rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -əʊʒə
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From Middle English; originally referring to the staff bearer, from a merger of Old French words crocier (“bearer of a cross”) and croisier (“one who bears or has to do with a cross”), ultimately from Latin crux (“cross”).

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَصًا (ʕaṣan) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Armenian: ասա (asa) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Armenian: ճոկան (čokan) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Middle Armenian: ճոկան (čokan) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Old Armenian: գաւազան եպիսկոպոսական (gawazan episkoposakan) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Belarusian: пастара́л (pastarál) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Breton: bazh-eskob — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Catalan: bàcul — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Catalan: crossa — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Chinese Cantonese: 權杖 /权杖 (kyun4 zoeng6) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Chinese: 權杖 /权杖 (khièn-chhóng) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Chinese Mandarin: 權杖 /权杖 (quánzhàng) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Czech: berla — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Czech: berle — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Czech: biskupská berla — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Danish: bispestav — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Dutch: bisschopsstaf — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Esperanto: episkopa bastono — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Faroese: bagal — staff of a bishop or abbot
• French: crosse — staff of a bishop or abbot
• German: Bischofsstab — staff of a bishop or abbot
• German: Krummstab — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Greek: ράβδος (rávdos) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Hebrew: מטה כמורה — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Hungarian: pásztorbot — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Hungarian: püspökbot — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Icelandic: biskupsstafur — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Icelandic: krókstafur — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Icelandic: bagall — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Ido: kroso — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Irish: bachall — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Old Irish: bachall — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Italian: bastone pastorale — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Italian: pastorale — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Italian: bacolo — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Italian: vincastro — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Korean: 주교 지팡이 (jugyo jipang'i) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Latin: baculum — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Latvian: gana zizlis — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Luxembourgish: Bëschofsstaf — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Macedonian: же́зол (žézol) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Malayalam: അംശവടി (aṁśavaṭi) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Norwegian Bokmål: bispestav — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bispestav — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Old English: hæcce — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Persian: چوگان (čowgân) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Polish: pastorał — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Portuguese: báculo — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Romanian: pateriță — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Russian: по́сох (pósox) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Scottish Gaelic: bachall — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Slovak: berla — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Slovak: biskupská berla — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Slovene: škofovska palica — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Spanish: báculo — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Spanish: báculo pastoral — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Swedish: kräkla — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Swedish: biskopsstav — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Tagalog: bakulo — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Turkish: pastoral asa — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Ukrainian: пате́ри́ця (patérýcja) — staff of a bishop or abbot
• Ukrainian: по́сох (pósox) — staff of a bishop or abbot