English word cancel comes from Latin cancer (A crab. A lattice, grid, or barrier. A tumor, cancer.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| cancer | Latin (lat) | A crab. A lattice, grid, or barrier. A tumor, cancer. |
| cancellus | Latin (lat) | Bars, barrier. Lattice, grate, grid. Railings. |
| cancelli | Latin (lat) | |
| cancello | Latin (lat) | I make like a lattice, cover with a lattice or grid. I strike or cross out, cancel. |
| canceler | Anglo-Norman (xno) | |
| cancellen | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
| cancel | English (en) | (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.. (slang) To kill.. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.. (transitive) To offset or equalize [...] |