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Cross comes from Old English cros, from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrux¹‘cross, gallows’
2. Old Irishc. 600–900cros¹
3. Old Norsec. 800–1350kross¹
4. Old Englishc. 450–1150cros¹‘rood, cross’
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500cross¹‘a cross’
6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592cross¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English cross
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]: “to cross me from the golden time I look…”.