Crius

[ krahy-uhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Crius¹

First recorded in 1730–40; from Latin Crius, from Greek kriós, of uncertain origin but later interpreted to be the same as kriós “ram, battering ram, constellation Aries”

Example Sentences

But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.

From Project Gutenberg

Earth produced Heaven, who then became her own lover, and to Heaven she bore Oceanus, and the Titans, Coeeus and Crius, Hyperion and Iapetus, Thea and Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, "and youngest after these was born Cronus of crooked counsel, the most dreadful of her children, who ever detested his puissant sire," Heaven.

From Project Gutenberg