cruce
Spanish, noun
cruce is spelled C-R-U-C-E (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,928th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cruce is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “crossroads, crossing, intersection (a place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of cruzar. With an accent, crucé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of cruzar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Intersección de dos cosas en forma de cruz (acción de cruzar o atravesar)”.
What does cruce mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrossroads, crossing, intersection (a place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads)
- 2
masculinecrossing, (action of crossing or traversing (a room, street, sea, etc.), or time elapsed for it)
- 3
masculinecrosswalk
- 4
masculinecrossing (action of causing to cross)
- 5
masculinecrossbreeding (action, effect or product of producing (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of cruzar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Intersección de dos cosas en forma de cruz (acción de cruzar o atravesar). 2. Punto de confluencia entre dos líneas o direcciones. 3. Lugar o área por donde pueden pasar, atravesar o cruzar de un lugar a otro los peatones (la calle), los caminantes, los viajeros o los animales. 4. Proceso y resultado de aparear o entrecruzar ciertos elementos de un conjunto con otros, como al hacer que un animal macho de cierta raza fecunde a una hembra de otra, o al combinar y mezclar culturas, lenguas, etc.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cruce
- cruces plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cruce
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cruce in Spanish?
cruce appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).