crucifer

From Latin crucifer (“cross-bearer”), from crux (“cross”) + ferō (“I carry, bear”).

crucifer (plural crucifers)

1. (Christianity) A person who carries a cross in a religious procession, a cross bearer.
2. (botany) A member of the family Cruciferae, the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard.

   Note: Brassicaceae may be used as an alternative and equivalent name for this family.

• (botany): arugula, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, mustard greens, radish, spring greens, watercress

• cruciferous

• Ferrucci

From crux (“cross”) +‎ -fer (“bearer”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.ki.fer/, [ˈkrʊkɪfɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.t͡ʃi.fer/, [ˈkruːt͡ʃifer]

crucifer m (genitive cruciferī); second declension

1. the cross-bearer, that is Jēsūs Chrīstus
2. (post-Classical, historical) the Kreuzer (German coin bearing cross)
3. (Medieval Latin) crusader

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• “crucifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crucifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• crucifer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “crucifer”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 283