Noun: cancro
Gender: m
Hyphenation: càn‧cro
| Singular m | cancro |
| Plural m | cancri |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cancro
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancrum. Compare the doublet granchio (“crab”), inherited through a Vulgar Latin diminutive form. See: Latin Nouns '
cancer'.
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