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cancelli

cancelli is the plural of cancellus.

Meaning of cancellus

Noun

cancellus (plural cancelli)

  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.

Questions about cancelli

What is cancelli the plural of?
Cancelli is the plural of cancellus.

Words near cancelli in the dictionary

  1. cancelled-to-order
  2. canceller
  3. cancellers
  4. cancellest
  5. cancelleth
  6. cancelli
  7. cancelling
  8. cancelling out
  9. cancelling someone's Christmas
  10. cancellous
  11. cancells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancelli (page history and authors); cancellus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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