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burden
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþ?, from Proto-Germanic *burþ??, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to carry, bear”).
Alternative forms
- burthen (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??dn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?dn/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
Noun
burden (plural burdens)
- A heavy load.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- A responsibility, onus.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered
- Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
- c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- a ship of a hundred tons burden
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- (obsolete, rare) A birth.
- […] that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
burden (third-person singular simple present burdens, present participle burdening, simple past and past participle burdened)
- (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
- (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
Derived terms
- burden basket
- burdensome
- beast of burden
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French bordon. See bourdon.
Noun
burden (plural burdens)
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
- 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
- As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ruddiman to this entry?)
- Theme, core idea.
References
Anagrams
- bunder, burned, unbred
Middle English
Etymology 1
From bord +? -en (“adjectival ending”)
Adjective
burden
- Alternative form of borden
Etymology 2
From burde +? -en (“plural ending”)
Noun
burden
- plural of burde
West Frisian
Noun
burden
- plural of burd
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cancer
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), by metathesis from Ancient Greek ???????? (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæns?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?kæ?ns?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæns?/
- Rhymes: -æns?(?)
Noun
cancer (countable and uncountable, plural cancers)
- (medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
- (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
Synonyms
- (disease): growth, malignancy, neoplasia
- (something which spreads): lichen
Hyponyms
- tumor
- leukaemia, leukemia
Derived terms
- cancerwort (Kickxia spp.)
- cancer bush (Lessertia frutescens)
- cancer stick
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ????? (kainsar)
- ? Urdu: ?????? (kainsar)
Translations
See also
- benignancy (benignity)
- leukemia
- lymphoma
- malignancy
- melanoma
References
- cancer at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cancer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- crance
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer.
Noun
cancer c (singular definite canceren, not used in plural form)
- cancer (disease)
- (slang) Something perceived as bad.
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer. Doublet of chancre, which was inherited, and cancre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.s??/
Noun
cancer m (plural cancers)
- cancer
Derived terms
- cancer vert
Related terms
- cancre
- chancre
Further reading
- “cancer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of carcer. Cognate with curvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kan.ker/, [?kä?k?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kan.t??er/, [?k?n??t???r]
Noun
cancer m (genitive cancr?); second declension
- a crab
- a tumor, cancer
- a lattice, grid, or barrier
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Derived terms
- cancellus
Descendants
References
- cancer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cancer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cancer in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[3]
- Jerry R. Craddock, "The Romance descendants of Latin cancer and vespa", in: Romance Philology, Vol. 60 (2006), pp. 1–42.
Old English
Alternative forms
- cancor
Etymology
From Latin cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n.ker/, [?k??.ker]
Noun
cancer m
- cancer
- crab
Declension
Derived terms
- cancer?dl
- cancerhæbern
- cancerwund
Descendants
- Middle English: canker, cancre, cancer, cankre, cankyr, kankir, kanker (partially from Old French cancre)
- English: canker
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “cancer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer, French cancer.
Noun
cancer n (plural cancere)
- cancer
Declension
Related terms
- canceros
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
cancer c
- (medicine, oncology) cancer
Synonyms
- kräfta (obsolete)
Declension
Related terms
- cancersvulst
- bröstcancer
- hudcancer
- lungcancer
References
- cancer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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