Yes, so I suppose that Latin cancer is a loan translation from Greek karkinos. (I say suppose because both words are cognates and could go back to PIE times.) I have yet to look into the Sanskrit word for crab which is also related to see if it can mean both crab and cancer. The greek word is a neuter and the plural is karkina, but the Latin word is sometimes a neuter and others a masc/fem.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.