verb intransitive

cancĕrasco

2nd PP cancĕrascere · 3rd PP cancĕrascāvi · conj. 3rd

to become cancerous; be afflicted with a cancer; to suppurate like a cancer •

v. inch. n. [cancer, III.], to become cancerous, be afflicted with a cancer, to suppurate like a cancer (post-class.; only in perf.), Plin. Val. 1, 10; App. Horb. 36; Marc. Emp. 9.—Hence, cancĕrātus, a, um, cancerous: vulnera, Plin. Val. 4, 32: ulcera, id. ib. 4, 51.

Perseus ID: n6453 Key: cancerasco