Cruces vs Crucifix - What's the difference?
cruces | crucifix |
* 1992 , David R. Slavitt (editor and translator), Seneca: The Tragedies (The Johns Hopkins University Press; ISBN 0801843081, 080184309X), volume 1, preface, page xvi:
A wooden cross used for crucifixions, as by the Romans.
An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.
(gymnastics) The iron cross, a position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
As nouns the difference between cruces and crucifix
is that cruces is plural of lang=en while crucifix is a wooden cross used for crucifixions, as by the Romans.cruces
English
Noun
(head) (p)- I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used.