- crusade
[crusade 词源字典]
- crusade: see cross
[crusade etymology, crusade origin, 英语词源] - crusade (n.)
- 1706, respelling of croisade (1570s), from Middle French croisade (16c.), Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare "to mark with a cross," from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cross." Other Middle English forms were croiserie, creiserie. Figurative sense of "campaign against a public evil" is from 1786.
- crusade (v.)
- 1732, from crusade (n.). Related: Crusaded; crusading.