English Explanatory Dictionary

cancellus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

cancellus cancelli

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cancellus (“little crab”). Doublet of chancel.

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