cancrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cancrum

1. accusative singular of cancer

語源 2

From cancer (“crab; cancer”). The use of cancrum as a neuter nominative/accusative form may derive from a misunderstanding of the gender of the masculine accusative singular form cancrum. The term "cancrum oris" first appears in print in Observationes medicae de affectibus omissis (1649) by Arnoldus Boot as a translation of English "mouth canker" in a grammatical context that calls for an accusative singular, and so the form is ambiguous in this source as to the gender of the word. The hypothesis that the name cancrum oris originated in such a blunder is put forth by B. H. Coates (1826), who suggests the error first appeared in John Pearson's Principles of Surgery (1788, London, Chapter 13, Section 1 "Of the Canker of the Mouth", from page 262).

名詞

cancrum n (genitive cancrī); second declension

1. (medicine) canker
   • 1649, Arnold Boate, Observationes medicae de affectibus omissis, (page 26):

     quando epidemice haec labes saevit ob quas causas Anglicum vulgus eam Mouth Canker, aut Canker of the Mouth, id est Cancrum Oris appellat: quod nomen de aliis quoque ulcerosis ac malignis Oris affectibus usurpat.

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Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• cancrum ōris

参照

• "cancrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)