cancerígeno
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.seˈɾi.ʒe.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.seˈɾi.ʒe.no/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ̃.sɨˈɾi.ʒɨ.nu/
- 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanθeˈɾixeno/ [kãn̟.θeˈɾi.xe.no] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- 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