Dictionary

crosier en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɹəʊʒə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkɹəʊzi.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• krōʹzhər (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkɹoʊʒɚ/ (US)

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

1. A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
   • […]the lives of the Latin clergy were more corrupt, and the Eastern bishops might pass for the successors of the apostles, if they were compared with the lordly prelates, who wielded by turns the crosier, the sceptre, and the sword. 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
   • “Nay, most gracious sovereign,” answered the Hermit, (well known to the curious in penny-histories of Robin Hood, by the name of Friar Tuck,) “it is not the crosier I fear, but the sceptre. […]” 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
   • […]the plastic tube hanging from his nose was attached to an upturned bottle on a tall stand on wheels that he pushed along beside him like a bishop pushing his crosier. 1996 [1992], chapter 33, in Paul Vincent, transl., The Discovery of Heaven, translation of original by Harry Mulisch:
2. A young fern frond, before it has unrolled.

Forms

Deriveds

belt of the crozier · crosiered

Synonyms

fiddlehead

Translations (63)

nn bispestav (staff of a bishop or abbot) · tl bakulo (staff of a bishop or abbot) · sk berla (staff of a bishop or abbot) · lb Bëschofsstaf (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ang hæcce (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ga bachall (staff of a bishop or abbot) · sk biskupská berla (staff of a bishop or abbot) · gd bachall (staff of a bishop or abbot) · de Krummstab (staff of a bishop or abbot) · cs biskupská berla (staff of a bishop or abbot) · da bispestav (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ca crossa (staff of a bishop or abbot) · is bagall (staff of a bishop or abbot) · fr crosse (staff of a bishop or abbot) · hu püspökbot (staff of a bishop or abbot) · it vincastro (staff of a bishop or abbot) · hy ճոկան (staff of a bishop or abbot) · sl škofovska palica (staff of a bishop or abbot) · io kroso (staff of a bishop or abbot) · nl bisschopsstaf (staff of a bishop or abbot) · cs berla (staff of a bishop or abbot) · hu pásztorbot (staff of a bishop or abbot) · lv gana zizlis (staff of a bishop or abbot) · axm ճոկան (staff of a bishop or abbot) · sga bachall (staff of a bishop or abbot) · sv biskopsstav (staff of a bishop or abbot) · hy ասա (staff of a bishop or abbot) · uk пате́ри́ця (staff of a bishop or abbot) · uk по́сох (staff of a bishop or abbot) · tr pastoral asa (staff of a bishop or abbot) · xcl գաւազան եպիսկոպոսական (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ml അംശവടി (staff of a bishop or abbot) · nan-hbl 權杖 /权杖 (staff of a bishop or abbot) · es báculo pastoral (staff of a bishop or abbot) · cs berle (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ru по́сох (staff of a bishop or abbot) · de Bischofsstab (staff of a bishop or abbot) · fi piispansauva (staff of a bishop or abbot) · mk же́зол (staff of a bishop or abbot) · pl pastorał (staff of a bishop or abbot) · yue 權杖 /权杖 (staff of a bishop or abbot) · el ράβδος (staff of a bishop or abbot) · pt báculo (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ro pateriță (staff of a bishop or abbot) · it pastorale (staff of a bishop or abbot) · eo episkopa bastono (staff of a bishop or abbot) · is biskupsstafur (staff of a bishop or abbot) · be пастара́л (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ca bàcul (staff of a bishop or abbot) · is krókstafur (staff of a bishop or abbot) · la baculum (staff of a bishop or abbot) · fa چوگان (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ar عَصًا (staff of a bishop or abbot) · sv kräkla (staff of a bishop or abbot) · it bastone pastorale (staff of a bishop or abbot) · he מטה כמורה (staff of a bishop or abbot) · it bacolo (staff of a bishop or abbot) · nb bispestav (staff of a bishop or abbot) · br bazh-eskob (staff of a bishop or abbot) · fo bagal (staff of a bishop or abbot) · es báculo (staff of a bishop or abbot) · cmn 權杖 /权杖 (staff of a bishop or abbot) · ko 주교 지팡이 (staff of a bishop or abbot)