crosier

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹəʊzi.ə/|/ˈkɹəʊʒə/    美 /ˈkɹoʊʒɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A young fern frond, before it has unrolled.

词形变化

crosiers plural crozier alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
belt of the crozier crosiered

词源

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”).
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