croisade

Borrowed from French croisade c. 1575.

croisade (plural croisades)

1. (obsolete) A crusade; a holy war.

• “croisade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ice roads, idocrase, radicose

Inherited from Middle French croisade (15th century), as it were crois + the suffix -ade. The change in suffix from Old French croisement, croiserie, croisée, is influenced by Old Occitan crozada (13th century) and Old Spanish cruzada (14th century), both reflecting Latin cruciāta.

• IPA^(key): /kʁwa.zad/

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croisade f (plural croisades)

1. crusade

• croiser
• croix

• “croisade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• coderais, décorais

From Old French croisade, from crois.

croisade f (plural croisades)

1. crusade (holy war against infidels)

• French: croisade