cancer

cri, m.

root kar-, to bend, twist; whence corona, circus

I. a lattice, the radical form of cancelli, q. v., Paul. ex Fest. p. 46; cf.: inter Orci cancros, App. M. 6, p. 176, 25.

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Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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