Noun: chancre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | chancre |
| Plural m | chancres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like chancre
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French chancre, from Old French chancre, inherited from Latin cancrum, from Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of cancer. See: Latin Nouns '
cancer'.
Verbs referencing "chancre"
Finnish Nouns
sankkeri, English Nouns
chancre, Spanish Nouns
chancro, Romanian Nouns
șancru, Polish Nouns
szankier, German Nouns
Schanker, Dutch Nouns
sjanker.
Translations