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Italian-Ligurian (Genoese) dictionary
gran croce
f. n. phr.
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grado degli ordini cavallereschi gran croxe
[ɡraŋ ˈkruːʒe]
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Plurals of feminines in -e
Feminine nouns and adjectives ending in -e remain unchanged in the plural, keeping a form closer to the original Latin declension compared to the Italian equivalents. Thus unna ciave > doe ciave < duae claves “two keys” and unna noxe > træ noxe < tres nuces “three nuts”. Plural forms in -i, such as ciavi and noxi, are Italianisms widely spread especially in urban areas.
Exceptions are feminines in -eise, whose plural form is now -eixi as in the masculine: unna zeneise > dötræ zeneixi “some Genoese women”.