different between harm vs cancer

English

Etymology

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)

1. physical injury; hurt; damage

2. emotional or figurative hurt
3. detriment; misfortune.

4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

Translations

Verb

harm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)

1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Hmar, mahr

Icelandic

Noun

harm

1. indefinite accusative singular of harmur

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha???m?/

Noun

harm

1. h-prothesized form of arm

Middle English

Alternative forms

• harem, arme, herme

Etymology

From Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm.

Noun

harm (plural harms)

1. harm, injury, ruination

Descendants

• English: harm
• Scots: herm, hairm
• Yola: harrm

References

• “harm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *harmaz.

Noun

harm m

1. harm

Descendants

• Middle Low German: harm, herm

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)