Greek

Proper noun

Καρκίνος • ‎(Karkínos) m

1. (astronomy, astrology) Cancer (constellation)

Declension

External links

• Καρκίνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /karkínos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /karcínos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaɾcínos/

Noun

καρκίνος • ‎(karkínos) m ‎(genitive καρκίνου); second declension

1. crab
2. Cancer, the zodiac sign
3. sore, ulcer, cancer
4. items which resemble a crab's pincers
   1. pair of pincers, a type of torture instrument
   2. temple bones
   3. type of shoe
   4. type of bandage
   5. pair of compasses
   6. still

Inflection

Synonyms

• (cancer): καρκίνωμα ‎(karkínōma)

Descendants

• Old Armenian: կարակին ‎(karakin), կարկին ‎(karkin)
  • Armenian: կարկին ‎(karkin)

References

• καρκίνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καρκίνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «καρκίνος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «καρκίνος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crab idem, page 181.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καρκίνος ‎(karkínos, “crab”)

Noun

καρκίνος • ‎(karkínos) m ‎(plural καρκίνοι)

1. (medicine) cancer (disease of uncontrolled cellular proliferation)
2. crab
3. (astronomy, astrology) Cancer

Declension

Synonyms

• (crab): κάβουρας m ‎(kávouras)
• (crab): καβούρι n ‎(kavoúri)

Derived terms