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Dictionary entries

  • cancer, canceris:

    Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension

    Frequency:
    Uncommon
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = crab; Cancer (zodiac); the_South; summer heat; cancer, disease, tumor, canker;

    Entry →
    abl. sg.
    dat. sg.
    loc. sg.
  • cancer, canceris:

    Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension

    Frequency:
    Uncommon
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = crab; Cancer (zodiac); the_South; summer heat; cancer, disease, tumor, canker;

    Entry →
    abl. sg.
    dat. sg.
    loc. sg.

Examples

  • T

    Pseudolus

    Titus Maccius Plautus

    "...vide, ut transversus, non proversus cedit, quasi cancer solet. 955 IV.ii BALLIO Minus malum hunc hominem esse opinor..."
  • L

    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..."
  • G

    SATIRICON LIBER

    Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)

    "...mari et in terra multa possideo; nam cancer et hoc et illoc quadrat. Et ideo iam dudum nihil..."
  • P

    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..."

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