cancro

Borrowed from Latin cancrum. Compare the doublet granchio (“crab”), inherited through a Vulgar Latin diminutive form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.kro/

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• Rhymes: -ankro
• Hyphenation: càn‧cro

cancro m (plural cancri)

1. (oncology) cancer

   Synonym: tumore

• cancerizzarsi
• cancerogeno
• cancerologia
• cancerologo
• canceroso
• granchio

cancrō

1. dative/ablative singular of cancer

Borrowed from Latin cancrum. Doublet of câncer and caranguejo.

• Hyphenation: can‧cro

cancro m (plural cancros)

1. (Portugal) cancer

   Synonym: (Brazil) câncer

2. (Portugal, figurative) a very undesirable, prejudicial or in any other way negative thing

   Synonym: (Brazil) câncer

• IPA^(key): /ˈkankɾo/ [ˈkãŋ.kɾo]
• Rhymes: -ankɾo
• Syllabification: can‧cro

cancro m (plural cancros)

1. canker

• “cancro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014