cancerate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →canceratus, cancerata, canceratum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Bio/medical
cancerous;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →cancerasco, cancerascere, canceravi, canceratus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Bio/medical
become cancerous; be afflicted with cancer; suppurate like a cancer;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
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..."