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cancellus
English
Etymology
From Latin cancellus (“little crab”)
Noun
cancellus (plural cancelli)
- (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
- (anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive, from cancer (“crab”) +? -lus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kan?kel.lus/, [kä??k?l???s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kan?t??el.lus/, [k?n???t???l?us]
Noun
cancellus m (genitive cancell?); second declension
- one of the bars which, in the form of a grid, collectively constitute a door that lets daylight through; the bars were covered by v?la if it was desired to keep the light off – lattice, grate, grid, bars, barrier, railings
- a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 10 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum
- 211–217 Dig. 43, 24, 9, § 1 Ulpianus libro septuagensimo primo ad edictum
- a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 10 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum
Usage notes
Usually used in the plural to denote such a door.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- cancell?rius
- cancell?
Descendants
References
- Gesterding, Franz (1818) Alte und neue Irrthümer der Rechtsgelehrten, Greifswald: Ernst Mauritius, page 365
- cancellus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cancellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- cancellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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cancellous
English
Etymology
From Latin cancellus (“lattice”).
Adjective
cancellous (not comparable)
- (anatomy, of bone) Having low density and strength but high surface area, of the kind that fills the inner cavity of long bones.
Synonyms
- trabecular
Translations
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