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carcinoma

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WOTD – 4 February 2022

Etymology edit

 
A large carcinoma (sense 1) in a human lung.

Learned borrowing from Latin carcinōma (“tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”), from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐ́νωμᾰ (karkínōma, “sore, ulcer; cancer”), from καρκινοῦν (karkinoûn, “to make (something) resemble a crab”), καρκινοῦσθαι (karkinoûsthai, “to become cancerous; to suffer from cancer”, passive) + -μᾰ (-ma, suffix attached to verbs to form neuter nouns denoting the effect or result of an action, a particular instance of an action, or the object of an action). Καρκινοῦν (Karkinoûn) is derived from καρκῐ́νος (karkínos, “crab; the zodiac sign Cancer; sore, ulcer; cancer”) (according to Paul of Aegina (c. 625 – c. 690) in his Medical Compendium in Seven Books, because the veins surrounding a cancerous tumour resemble a crab’s legs),[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”) (as a crab’s pincers form a circle) + *-iHnos (suffix forming adjectives of materials).[2] The English word is a doublet of cancer, and may be analysed as carcino- +‎ -oma.

The plural form carcinomata is a learned borrowing from Latin carcinōmata, from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐνώμᾰτᾰ (karkinṓmata).

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carcinoma (countable and uncountable, plural carcinomas or carcinomata) (oncology)

  1. (countable) An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
  2. (obsolete, countable) A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.

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  1. ^ Paulus Ægineta (1846) “Book VI”, in Francis Adams, transl., The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta. Translated from the Greek. With a Commentary Embracing a Complete View of the Knowledge Possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on All Subjects Connected with Medicine and Surgery. […], volume II, London: […] [C. and J. Adlard] for the Sydenham Society, →OCLC, section XLV (On Cancer), page 332: “It [a tumour] has veins stretched on all sides as the animal the crab (cancer) has its feet, whence it derives its name.”
  2. ^ Compare “carcinoma, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “carcinoma, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ “"carcinoma." Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary, Lexico”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 2022 February 4 (last accessed), archived from the original on 4 February 2022
  4. ^ "carcinoma." www.merriam-webster.com

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carcinoma m (plural carcinomes)

  1. (oncology) carcinoma

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carcinoma (plural carcinomas)

  1. carcinoma

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From Latin carcĭnōma (“a cancerous ulcer”), from Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).

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carcinoma m (plural carcinomi)

  1. (oncology) carcinoma

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From Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).

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carcinōma n (genitive carcinōmatis); third declension

  1. carcinoma

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carcinōma carcinōmata
Genitive carcinōmatis carcinōmatum
Dative carcinōmatī carcinōmatibus
Accusative carcinōma carcinōmata
Ablative carcinōmate carcinōmatibus
Vocative carcinōma carcinōmata

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  • Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma

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carcinoma m (plural carcinomas)

  1. (oncology) carcinoma (type of malignant tumour)

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin carcinōma, from Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /kaɾθiˈnoma/ [kaɾ.θiˈno.ma]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /kaɾsiˈnoma/ [kaɾ.siˈno.ma]
  • Rhymes: -oma
  • Syllabification: car‧ci‧no‧ma

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carcinoma m (plural carcinomas)

  1. (oncology) carcinoma (type of malignant tumour)

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