cancellus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin cancellus (“little crab”). Doublet of chancel.
Noun
[edit]cancellus (plural cancelli)
- (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
- (anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Diminutive, from cancer (“crab”) + -lus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kanˈkel.lus/, [käŋˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kanˈt͡ʃel.lus/, [kän̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛlːus]
Noun
[edit]cancellus m (genitive cancellī); second declension
- one of the bars which, in the form of a grid, collectively constitute a door that lets daylight through; the bars were covered by vēla if it was desired to keep the light off – lattice, grate, grid, bars, barrier, railings
- a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 10 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum
- Sed si cancelli sint vel vela, legari poterunt, non tamen fistulae vel castelli.
- But while bar-doors or their veils can be legated, not so water-pipes or water-basins.
- 211–217 Dig. 43, 24, 9, § 1 Ulpianus libro septuagensimo primo ad edictum
- Si tamen sera vel clavis vel cancellus vel specularium sit ablatum, quod vi aut clam agi non poterit.
- But if a door-bar or a key or a pane is carried away, be it by force or stealthily, there is no action [by interdict].
- a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 10 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum
Usage notes
[edit]Usually used in the plural to denote such a door.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | cancellus | cancellī |
genitive | cancellī | cancellōrum |
dative | cancellō | cancellīs |
accusative | cancellum | cancellōs |
ablative | cancellō | cancellīs |
vocative | cancelle | cancellī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]
- Catalan: cancell
- Italian: cancello
- Neapolitan: canciello
- Old French: chancel, cancel
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: cancilla
- Sicilian: canceḍḍu
- → Byzantine Greek: κάγκελον (kánkelon)
- → English: cancellus
- → Old High German: cancella
- → Old Irish: caingel
- Irish: caingeal
- → Welsh: cangell
References
[edit]- Gesterding, Franz (1818) Alte und neue Irrthümer der Rechtsgelehrten, Greifswald: Ernst Mauritius, page 365
- “cancellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cancellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cancellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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