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Cancer = 蟹?
現代英詞'cancer'有三個意思:蟹(crab), 癌腫瘤(tumour)和巨蟹座(Zodiac sign Cancer)。
解作蟹的英詞'Cancer'是源於拉丁文的'Cancer'。
星座的英文名Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius都是拉丁文。
古希臘醫學家以一些有脹大靜脈的腫瘤(tumour)形狀和蟹(crab)相似而以cancer叫這些病症,所以癌症也叫cancer。
參考資料:Online Etymology
cancer (n.)
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Old English cancer "spreading sore, cancer" (also canceradl), from Latin cancer "a crab," later, "malignant tumor," from Greek karkinos, which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), from PIE root *qarq- "to be hard" (like the shell of a crab); cf. Sanskrit karkatah "crab," karkarah"hard;" and perhaps cognate with PIE root *qar-tu- "hard, strong," source of English hard.
Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted similarity of crabs to some tumors with swollen veins. Meaning "person born under the zodiac sign of Cancer" is from 1894. The sun being in Cancer at the summer solstice, the constellation had association in Latin writers with the south and with summer heat. Cancer stick "cigarette" is from 1959.