carcinoma

Learned borrowing from Latin carcinōma (“tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”), from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐ́νωμᾰ (kărkĭ́nōmă, “sore, ulcer; cancer”), from καρκινόω (karkinóō, “to make (something) resemble a crab”, in the mediopassive "to become cancerous; to suffer from cancer") + -μᾰ (-mă, action noun suffix). Καρκινόω is derived from καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab; the zodiac sign Cancer; sore, ulcer; cancer”) (according to Paul of Aegina (c. 625 – c. 690) in his Medical Compendium in Seven Books, because the veins surrounding a cancerous tumour resemble a crab’s legs).^[1] The English word is a doublet of cancer, and may be analysed as carcino- +‎ -oma.

The plural form carcinomata is a learned borrowing from Latin carcinōmata, from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐνώμᾰτᾰ (kărkĭnṓmătă).

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmə/, /ˌkɑːsnˈəʊmə/

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑɹsɪˈnoʊmə/, /-sə-/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊmə
  • Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma
• Plural (carcinomata):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmətə/, /ˌkɑːsnˈəʊmətə/^[2]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑɹsɪˈnoʊmətə/, /-sə-/, [-ɾə]^[3]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːsɪnəʊˈmɑːtə/, /ˌkɑːsnəʊˈmɑːtə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑɹsɪnoʊˈmɑtə/, /-sə-/, [-ɾə]
  • Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma‧ta

carcinoma (countable and uncountable, plural carcinomas or carcinomata) (oncology)

1. (countable) An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
2. (obsolete, countable) A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXIII.] Of Peares, and the Properties Observed in Them. Of Tame Figge Trees, and Their Figges. Of the Wild Figge Tree. Of Erineus, and Other Plants, with the Medicines which They Affourd..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 167:

     Take the fatteſt and fulleſt Figs you can get, lay them upon the ugly and ill favored tumor called Carcinoma, i. the Canker, ſo it be not yet exulcerat, I aſſure you it is a ſoveraine remedie, and hardly can be matched againe: […]

• cancer
• malignancy

• adenocarcinoma
• lymphoma

• sarcoma

• basalioma
• encephaloma (dated)
• fibroepithelioma
• melanoma

• carcinoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• macaronic, maccaroni

carcinoma m (plural carcinomes)

1. (oncology) carcinoma

• “carcinoma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

carcinoma (plural carcinomas)

1. carcinoma

From Latin carcĭnōma (“a cancerous ulcer”), from Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).

carcinoma m (plural carcinomi)

1. (oncology) carcinoma

• adenocarcinoma
• epatocarcinoma

• monacarci

From Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kar.kɪˈnoː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kar.t͡ʃiˈnɔː.ma]

carcinōma n (genitive carcinōmatis); third declension

1. carcinoma

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• Rhymes: -omɐ
• Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma

carcinoma m (plural carcinomas)

1. (oncology) carcinoma (type of malignant tumour)

Borrowed from Latin carcinōma, from Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾθiˈnoma/ [kaɾ.θiˈno.ma] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kaɾsiˈnoma/ [kaɾ.siˈno.ma] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: car‧ci‧no‧ma

carcinoma m (plural carcinomas)

1. (oncology) carcinoma (type of malignant tumour)

• “carcinoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024