different between elastic vs cancellus

English

Alternative forms

• elastick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French élastique, from New Latin elasticus (“elastic”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (elastós), alternative form of ?????? (elatós, “ductile”) (cf. ?????? (elat?r, “a driver, hurler”)), from ?????? (elaún?, “to drive, set in motion, push, strike, beat out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?læst?k/, /??læst?k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k
• Hyphenation: elas?tic

Adjective

elastic (comparative more elastic, superlative most elastic)

1. Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.

   The rope is somewhat elastic, so expect it to give when you pull on it.

2. Made of elastic.

   elastic band

3. Of clothing, elasticated.
4. (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.

   Demand for entertainment is more elastic than demand for energy.

5. springy; bouncy; vivacious
6. Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.

   elastic spirits; an elastic constitution

Synonyms

• stretchy
• stretchable

Related terms

• elasticated
• elastic band
• inelastic
• elasticity

Translations

Noun

elastic (countable and uncountable, plural elastics)

1. (uncountable) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs.

2. (countable) An elastic band.

Translations

Further reading

• elastic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• elastic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• elastic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Altices, Castiel, Castile, astelic, laciest, latices, salicet

Romanian

Etymology

From French élastique.

Adjective

elastic m or n (feminine singular elastic?, masculine plural elastici, feminine and neuter plural elastice)

1. elastic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin cancellus (“little crab”)

Noun

cancellus (plural cancelli)

1. (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
2. (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

1. 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

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