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Albanian
Etymology
From English cancer.
Noun
kancer m (definite kanceri)
- cancer
Declension
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cancer.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ant͡sɛr
- Syllabification: kan‧cer
Noun
kancer m inan
- (archaic, oncology) cancer (disease of uncontrolled cellural proliferation)
- Synonym: rak
- (colloquial, philately) Alternative form of kancera (“damaged postage stamp”)
- Hypernym: znaczek
- (Middle Polish, oncology, pathology) tumor, ulcer
- Synonyms: guz, wrzód
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- kancer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kancer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kancer”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku