cancro
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)
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
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cancro m (plural cancros)
Further reading edit
- “cancro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014