cancerígeno
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: can‧ce‧rí‧ge‧no
=== Adjective ===
cancerígeno (feminine cancerígena, masculine plural cancerígenos, feminine plural cancerígenas)
carcinogenic
Synonyms: carcinogénico (Portugal), carcinogênico (Brazil)
(figurative) very undesirable, prejudicial or in any other way negative
=== Further reading ===
“cancerígeno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“cancerígeno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
From cáncer + -geno.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /kanθeˈɾixeno/ [kãn̟.θeˈɾi.xe.no] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
IPA(key): /kanseˈɾixeno/ [kãn.seˈɾi.xe.no] (Latin America, Philippines)
Rhymes: -ixeno
Syllabification: can‧ce‧rí‧ge‧no
=== Adjective ===
cancerígeno (feminine cancerígena, masculine plural cancerígenos, feminine plural cancerígenas)
carcinogenic
Synonyms: carcinogénico, carcinógeno
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“cancerígeno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025