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trouble
English
Etymology
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbul?re, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tr?b??l; IPA(key): /?t??b(?)l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t??b(?)l/, /?t??-/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
- Hyphenation: trou?ble
Noun
trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A violent occurrence or event.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- She never took the trouble to close them.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- A malfunction.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
Usage notes
- Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:difficult situation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.
Verb
trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)
- (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
- I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
Related terms
- turbid
- turbulent
Translations
Further reading
- trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- trouble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -buterol, Boulter, boulter
French
Etymology 1
Deverbal of troubler or from Old French troble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ubl/
Noun
trouble m (plural troubles)
- trouble
- (medicine) disorder
Derived terms
- trouble de la personnalité
- trouble obsessionnel compulsif
Verb
trouble
- first-person singular present indicative of troubler
- third-person singular present indicative of troubler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- second-person singular imperative of troubler
Etymology 2
From Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure.
Adjective
trouble (plural troubles)
- (of a liquid) murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear
Derived terms
- pêcher en eau trouble
Further reading
- “trouble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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cancer
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)
- (medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
- (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)
- cancer (disease)
- (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)
- 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
- a crab
- a tumor, cancer
- 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
- cancer
- 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)
- cancer
Declension
Related terms
- canceros
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
cancer c
- (medicine, oncology) cancer
Synonyms
- kräfta (obsolete)
Declension
Related terms
- cancersvulst
- bröstcancer
- hudcancer
- lungcancer
References
- cancer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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