chancre
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchancre (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.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editlesion
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited 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.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchancre m (plural chancres)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: chancre
Further reading
edit- “chancre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French chancre, from Latin cancer, cancrum.
Noun
editchancre m (plural chancres)
- cancer (cancerous cell mutation)
Descendants
editNorman
editEtymology
editFrom Old French chancre, from Latin cancer.
Noun
editchancre m (plural chancres)
Synonyms
edit- (Guernsey crab): houais
Derived terms
edit- chancreux (“cancerous”)
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æŋkə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/æŋkə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Pathology
- English terms with quotations
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French doublets
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with obsolete senses
- fr:Medicine
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms inherited from Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Norman terms derived from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Latin
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Pathology
- nrf:Crabs