chancre

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English

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A chancre on the tongue caused by primary syphilis
A chancre of African trypanosomiasis on the neck

Etymology

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

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chancre (plural chancres)

  1. (pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
    • 1942, Albert Camus, 'The Stranger' (a.k.a 'The Outsider'), Joseph Laredo translation, Ch.1:
      The nurse stood up and went towards the door. At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes. Where her nose should have been, the bandage was flat. Her face seemed to be nothing but a white bandage.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French chancre, from Old French chancre, inherited from Latin cancrum, from Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of *karkros (enclosure) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (circular), reduplication of *(s)ker- (to turn, bend). Doublet of cancer.

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chancre m (plural chancres)

  1. (obsolete) lobster, crab
  2. (medicine) canker, chancre
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  • English: chancre

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer, cancrum.

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chancre m (plural chancres)

  1. cancer (cancerous cell mutation)

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer.

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chancre m (plural chancres)

  1. (Jersey, pathology) tumour, verruca; syphilis
  2. (Jersey) Guernsey crab

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