cancer – Latin noun declension

Noun: cancer
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	cancer
Plural	cancrī

Genitive

Singular	cancrī
Plural	cancrōrum

Dative

Singular	cancrō
Plural	cancrīs

Accusative

Singular	cancrum
Plural	cancrōs

Ablative

Singular	cancrō
Plural	cancrīs

Vocative

Singular	cancer
Plural	cancrī

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like cancer

rāster, pīnaster, oleaster, deaster, surdaster, scomber, catulaster, fīliaster, colober, coluber, calamister, cilōter, minister, sēmicaper, poētaster, aeger, faber, fiber, liber, beber, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

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", and as such a doublet of carcer. Cognate with curvus. The medical sense, found in Celsus, seems likely to be a semantic loan from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”), which is possibly cognate.

Verbs referencing "cancer"

English Nouns cancer, Danish Nouns cancer, French Nouns cancer, Old English Nouns cancer, Romanian Nouns cancer, English Nouns canker, Asturian Nouns cáncer, Spanish Nouns cáncer, French Nouns Cancer, Italian Nouns cancro, Catalan Nouns cranc, Dutch Nouns kanker, Danish Nouns kræft, English Nouns chancre, French Nouns chancre, Italian Nouns granchio, Spanish Nouns cangrejo, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kreft, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kreft, Ancient Greek Nouns καρκίνος, French Nouns cancre, Catalan Nouns càncer, Spanish Nouns chancro, Portuguese Nouns carango, Polish Nouns szankier, German Nouns Schanker, Old Spanish Nouns cangro, Irish Nouns cancar.

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