chancre
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
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chancre (plural chancres)
- (pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
- 1942, Albert Camus, 'The Stranger' (a.k.a 'The Outsider'), Joseph Laredo translation, Ch.1:
- The nurse stood up and went towards the door. At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes. Where her nose should have been, the bandage was flat. Her face seemed to be nothing but a white bandage.
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lesion
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French edit
Etymology edit
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.
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chancre m (plural chancres)
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Descendants edit
- → English: chancre
Further reading edit
- “chancre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer, cancrum.
Noun edit
chancre m (plural chancres)
- cancer (cancerous cell mutation)
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Etymology edit
From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer.
Noun edit
chancre m (plural chancres)
Synonyms edit
- (Guernsey crab): houais
Derived terms edit
- chancreux (“cancerous”)