cancer

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See also: Cancer, cáncer, cancèr, Cáncer, càncer, câncer, and Câncer

English

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Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), by metathesis from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ænsə(ɹ)

Noun

cancer (countable and uncountable, plural cancers)

  1. (medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎[1]:
      If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the […] hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
    • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
      Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
  2. (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
    • 1999, Bruce Clifford Ross-Larson, Effective Writing‎[2], page 134:
      Sierra Leone's post-dictator problems are almost absurd in their breadth. It once exported rice; now it can't feed itself. The life span of the average citizen is 39, the shortest in Africa. Unemployment stands at 87 percent and tuberculosis is spreading out of control. Corruption, brazen and ubiquitous, is a cancer on the economy.

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Derived terms

types of cancer

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cancer.

Noun

cancer c (singular definite canceren, not used in plural form)

  1. cancer (disease)
  2. (slang) Something perceived as bad.

Declension

Declension of cancer
common
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative cancer canceren
genitive cancers cancerens

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cancer. Doublet of chancre, which was inherited, and cancre.

Pronunciation

Noun

cancer m (plural cancers)

  1. cancer

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Latin

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure". Cognate with Latin carcer and curvus.

Pronunciation

Noun

cancer m (genitive cancrī); second declension

  1. a crab
  2. a tumor, cancer
  3. a lattice, grid, or barrier

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cancer cancrī
Genitive cancrī cancrōrum
Dative cancrō cancrīs
Accusative cancrum cancrōs
Ablative cancrō cancrīs
Vocative cancer cancrī

Derived terms

Descendants

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References

  • “cancer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cancer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cancer”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[3]
  • Jerry R. Craddock, "The Romance descendants of Latin cancer and vespa", in: Romance Philology, Vol. 60 (2006), pp. 1–42.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin cancer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.ker/, [ˈkɑŋ.ker]

Noun

cancer m

  1. cancer
  2. crab

Declension

Declension of cancer (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative cancer cancras
accusative cancer cancras
genitive cancres cancra
dative cancre cancrum

Derived terms

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cancer, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cancer.

Noun

cancer n (plural cancere)

  1. cancer

Declension

Declension of cancer
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cancer cancerul (niște) cancere cancerele
genitive/dative (unui) cancer cancerului (unor) cancere cancerelor
vocative cancerule cancerelor

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

cancer c

  1. (medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer

Usage notes

  • Until circa 1970, the word kräfta was also used.

Declension

Declension of cancer 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative cancer cancern cancrar cancrarna
Genitive cancers cancerns cancrars cancrarnas

References

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