cancellus

cancellus (plural cancelli)

1. (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
2. (anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.

Diminutive of cancer. Literally: "little crab".

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kanˈkel.lus/, [kaŋˈkɛl.lʊs]

cancellus m (genitive cancelli); second declension

1. lattice, grate, grid
2. bars, barrier
3. railings

Usually used in the plural, rarely in the singular.

Second declension.

• cancellō

• Italian: cancello
• Neapolitan: canciello
• Old French: chancel, cancel
  • French: chancel, cancel, chanceau
  • → Breton: kañsell
  • → English: chancel, chauncel
  • → Scottish Gaelic: seansal
  • → Spanish: cancel
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: cancela
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: cancilla
• → Byzantine Greek: κάγκελον (kánkelon)
  • Greek: κάγκελο (kágkelo)
• → English: cancellus
• → Old High German: cancella
  • Middle High German: kanzel
    • Alemannic German: Kansel
    • German: Kanzel
      • → Dutch: kansel
      • → Estonian: kantsel
      • → Latvian: kancele

• 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, 1883–1887)
• cancellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette