crucially

cru·cial  (krshl)

adj.

1.

a. Extremely significant or important: a crucial problem.

b. Vital to the resolution of a crisis; decisive: a crucial election. See Synonyms at decisive.

2. Archaic Having the form of a cross; cross-shaped.

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[From New Latin (nstantia) crucis, (expermentum) crucis, crossroads (case), crossroads (experiment), from Latin crux, cruc-, cross. Sense 2, French, from Old French, from Latin crux.]

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crucial·ly adv.

Word History: A crucial election is like a signpost because it shows which way the electorate is moving. The metaphor of a signpost, in fact, gives us the sense of the word crucial, "of supreme importance, critical." Francis Bacon used the phrase instantia crucis, "crucial instance," to refer to something in an experiment that proves one of two hypotheses and disproves the other. Bacon's phrase was based on a sense of the Latin word crux, "cross," which had come to mean "a guidepost that gives directions at a place where one road becomes two," and hence was suitable for Bacon's metaphor. Both Robert Boyle, often called the father of modern chemistry, and Isaac Newton used the similar Latin phrase experimentum crucis, "crucial experiment." When these phrases were translated into English, they became crucial instance and crucial experiment.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

crucially - to a crucial degree; "crucially important"; "crucially, he must meet us at the airport"

Translations

crucially [ˈkruːʃəlɪ] ADV to be crucially important → ser de crucial importancia
their future is crucially dependent or depends crucially on this decision → su futuro depende de forma crucial de esta decisión
crucially, he failed to secure the backing of the banks → lo verdaderamente crucial fue que no logró asegurarse el respaldo de los bancos

crucially [ˈkruːʃ^əli] adv
crucially important → d'une importance cruciale
crucially different → fondamentalement différent
crucially, ... → fait décisif, ...
Crucially, the bank has rejected the proposal → Fait décisif, la banque a rejeté l'offre.

crucially

adv → ausschlaggebend; different → bedeutend; crucially important → von entscheidender Bedeutung; crucially, he is 10 years older than she is → von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, dass er 10 Jahre älter ist als sie

crucially [ˈkruːʃ/əlɪ] adv it is crucially important that ... → è di vitale importanza che...