Etymology

chancre

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Today it means: Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis. Full definition →

French chancre ← Latin cancer
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcancer“crab”
  2. French · borrowed fromchancre“cancer”
  3. English todaychancre

Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.

Words from the same roots

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