canceris

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaŋ.kɛ.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan̠ʲ.t͡ʃe.ris]
• Hyphenation: can‧ce‧ris

canceris

1. (uncommon) genitive singular of cancer
   • 1st century BCE, Titus Lucrētius Cārus, “Liber V”, in Dē Rērum Nātūrā [On the Nature of Things], line 617:

     Nec ratiō sōlis simplex [et] rēcta patescit,
     quō pāctō aestīvīs ē partibus aegocerōtis
     brūmālis adeat flexūs atque inde revertēns
     canceris ut vertat mētās ad sōlstitiālīs,
     lūnaque mēnsibus id spatium videātur obīre,
     annua sōl in quō cōnsūmit tempora cursū.

     Nor is it clear from the simple and straight path of the sun,
     which, in summer, from the parts of the Aegocerotes
     winter, bends and returns from there
     to Cancer, so as to turn the seasons to the solstices,
     and the moon seems to pass that space in months,
     the annual sun in which it consumes the seasons of its course.