cancerígeno

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃.seˈɾi.ʒe.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃.seˈɾi.ʒe.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃.seˈɾi.ʒe.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃.sɨˈɾi.ʒɨ.nu/

• Hyphenation: can‧ce‧rí‧ge‧no

Adjective

cancerígeno (feminine cancerígena, masculine plural cancerígenos, feminine plural cancerígenas)

1. carcinogenic
2. (figurative) very undesirable, prejudicial or in any other way negative

Spanish

Etymology

From cáncer +‎ -geno.

Adjective

cancerígeno (feminine cancerígena, masculine plural cancerígenos, feminine plural cancerígenas)

1. carcinogenic

Derived terms

• anticancerígeno

 

Further reading

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