crosier

See also: Crosier

English

Statue of Saint Augustine holding a crosier in his right hand.

Alternative forms

• crozier

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹəʊzi.ə/, /ˈkɹəʊʒə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: krōʹzhər IPA^(key): /ˈkɹoʊʒɚ/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊʒə

Noun

crosier (plural crosiers)

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.
2. (botany) A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:crosier.

Derived terms

• belt of the crozier
• crosiered

Translations

staff of a bishop or abbot

• Arabic: عَصًا f (ʕaṣan)
• Armenian: ասա (asa), ճոկան (hy) (čokan)

  Middle Armenian: ճոկան (čokan)

  Old Armenian: գաւազան եպիսկոպոսական (gawazan episkoposakan)

• Belarusian: пастара́л (pastarál)
• Breton: bazh-eskob (br)
• Catalan: bàcul (ca) m, crossa (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 權杖 / 权杖 (kyun⁴ zoeng⁶)

  Hokkien: 權杖 / 权杖 (khièn-chhóng)

  Mandarin: 權杖 / 权杖 (zh) (quánzhàng)

• Czech: berla (cs) f, berle (cs) f, biskupská berla f
• Danish: bispestav
• Dutch: bisschopsstaf
• Esperanto: episkopa bastono
• Faroese: bagal m
• French: crosse (fr) f
• German: Bischofsstab (de) m, Krummstab m
• Greek: ράβδος (el) (rávdos)
• Hebrew: מטה כמורה
• Hungarian: pásztorbot (hu), püspökbot (hu)
• Icelandic: biskupsstafur m, krókstafur m, bagall (is) m
• Ido: kroso (io)
• Irish: bachall f

  Old Irish: bachall f

• Italian: bastone pastorale m, pastorale (it) m, bacolo (it) m, vincastro (it) m
• Korean: 주교 지팡이 (jugyo jipang'i)
• Latin: baculum n
• Latvian: gana zizlis
• Luxembourgish: Bëschofsstaf m
• Macedonian: же́зол m (žézol)
• Malayalam: അംശവടി (ml) (aṁśavaṭi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bispestav (no) m

  Nynorsk: bispestav m

• Old English: hæcce f
• Persian: (archaic) چوگان (fa) (čowgân)
• Polish: pastorał (pl) m
• Portuguese: báculo (pt) m
• Romanian: pateriță (ro) f
• Russian: по́сох (ru) m (pósox)
• Scottish Gaelic: bachall m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} жезал m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} žezal m

• Slovak: berla f, biskupská berla f
• Slovene: škofovska palica (sl) f
• Spanish: báculo (es) m, báculo pastoral m
• Swedish: kräkla (sv) c, biskopsstav (sv) c
• Tagalog: bakulo
• Turkish: pastoral asa
• Ukrainian: пате́ри́ця f (patérýcja), по́сох m (pósox)

Anagrams

• cirrose, corries, orrices