cancer, cancri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension · variant: 3rd
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
crab; Cancer (zodiac); the_South; summer heat; cancer, disease, tumor, canker;
Inflections
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | cancer | cancri |
| Gen. | cancri | cancrorum |
| Dat. | cancro | cancris |
| Acc. | cancrum | cancros |
| Voc. | cancer | cancri |
| Abl. | cancro | cancris |
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vide, ut transversus, non proversus cedit, quasi cancer solet. 955 IV.ii BALLIO Minus malum hunc hominem esse opinor..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uidet quodcumque timuit: transtulit Iuno feras. ambit peremptus cancer ardentem plagam Libyaeque sidus fertur et messes alit; annum..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...mari et in terra multa possideo; nam cancer et hoc et illoc quadrat. Et ideo iam dudum nihil..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...amisso sanguine venae; utque malum late solet inmedicabile cancer serpere et inlaesas vitiatis addere partes, sic letalis hiems..."