Latin cross
- noun
- /ˈlætɪn krɔs/
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cruz latina
- American veterans' organizations have also entered the fray, spreading false claims that the 9,387 Latin crosses and Stars of David honoring World War II veterans killed during the invasion at Normandy will be removed if the Latin cross on Mount Soledad is removed.
Examples
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There are 10 sections of gravesites divided alphabetically so one can search on a computer and find their loved one and know exactly which area to search as our men and women lie beneath precisely aligned headstones of white lasa marble, Latin crosses, and Stars of David.
Academic text (2009) -
I don't consider it sacred, nor do I have any intention of ever again going up to the Mount Soledad public park as long as a Latin cross stands there to shun patriotic, non-Christian U.S. veterans like me.
Academic text (2006) -
Imagine a huge Latin cross lying flat on the ground.
Fiction book (1993) -
When his army awoke, the legend continues, every shield also bore the sign of the Latin cross.
Academic text (2007) -
I am the plaintiff who filed a lawsuit on May 31, 1989, against the City of San Diego with the aim of removing the twenty-four-ton Latin cross from the public park.
Academic text (2006) -
And if this poem traces a cross, it traces a Latin cross, just as the plans of the churches in Gandia or Valencia that March frequented.
Academic text (1992) -
In other words, the bimodular system of expansion produced a church whose overall shape was a canonical Latin cross whose proportions were close to a primal, resonant 2:1 ratio.
Academic text (2015) -
Secondly, individual ownership and display of a Latin cross on a U.S. military veteran's headstone or grave marker located inside a government military cemetery is constitutional and quite different from government ownership and maintenance of the forty-three-foot Mount Soledad cross inside a public park.
Academic text (2006) -
American veterans' organizations have also entered the fray, spreading false claims that the 9,387 Latin crosses and Stars of David honoring World War II veterans killed during the invasion at Normandy will be removed if the Latin cross on Mount Soledad is removed.
Academic text (2006) -
The Latin cross is prominently displayed on top of many churches across Europe.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositional in that 'Latin' modifies 'cross' to indicate a particular kind of cross associated with the Latin/Western Christian tradition, so learners will understand it names a type of cross. However, the precise conventional detail (the upright arm being longer than the horizontal arms) is a specialized, culture-specific description that is not directly predictable from the constituent words alone, so full meaning requires some prior cultural or encyclopedic knowledge.
Etymology
Latin cross is the name for the cross with a long upright part and shorter horizontal parts, the simple 't' shape used by Western, Latin-speaking Christians. So the term came to mean the Christian cross with a longer vertical part.
