different between cancer vs enormity

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)

1. (medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
2. (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)

1. cancer (disease)
2. (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)

1. 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

1. a crab
2. a tumor, cancer
3. 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

1. cancer
2. 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)

1. cancer

Declension

Related terms

• canceros

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

cancer c

1. (medicine, oncology) cancer

Synonyms

• kräfta (obsolete)

Declension

Related terms

• cancersvulst
• bröstcancer
• hudcancer
• lungcancer

References

• cancer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English ?norme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ?normit?s (“irregularity; enormity”), from ?n?rmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -it?s (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). ?n?rmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’) + n?rma (“norm, standard”) + -is (Latin suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n??m?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n??m?ti/, /-?i/
• Hyphenation: enorm?i?ty

Noun

enormity (countable and uncountable, plural enormities)

1. (obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
2. (uncountable) Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty. [from 15th c.]
3. (countable) A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness. [from 15th c.]
4. (uncountable) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness. [from 18th c.]

Usage notes

Enormity as a synonym for enormousness is sometimes considered an error, though other usage guides hold that there is little basis for the distinction. Both words ultimately go back to the same Latin source word ?n?rmis meaning “deviating from the norm, abnormal”.

Synonyms

• (deviation from what is normal or standard): anomalousness, oddness, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
• (deviation from moral normality): atrociousness, depravity, immorality; see also Thesaurus:villainy
• (a breach of law or morality): desecration, violation
• (great size): immensity, prodigiousness

Related terms

Translations

References