different between porous vs cancellus

English

Etymology

From Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????s/
• Rhymes: -??r?s

Adjective

porous (comparative more porous, superlative most porous)

1. Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.

   Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.

   Concrete is porous, so water will slowly filter through it.

2. (figuratively) With many gaps.
3. (figuratively, by extension) full of loopholes

Synonyms

• (full of holes): permeable

Translations

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