cancro
Appearance
See also: Cancro
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cancrum. Compare the doublet granchio (“crab”), inherited through a Vulgar Latin diminutive form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cancro m (plural cancri)
- (oncology) cancer
- Synonym: tumore
- (figurative) cancer
Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]cancrō
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cancrum. Doublet of câncer and caranguejo.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: can‧cro
Noun
[edit]cancro m (plural cancros)
- (Portugal) cancer
- Synonym: (Brazil) câncer
- (Portugal, figurative) a very undesirable, prejudicial or in any other way negative thing
- Synonym: (Brazil) câncer
Descendants
[edit]- → Tetum: kankru
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cancro m (plural cancros)
Further reading
[edit]- “cancro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Rhymes:Italian/ankro
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- it:Oncology
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ankɾo
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