noli-me-tangere

1. 1.

   a cancerous ulcer of soft tissue and bone

   Broaderulcer

Questions about noli-me-tangere

What does noli-me-tangere mean?

noli-me-tangere means "a cancerous ulcer of soft tissue and bone".

How many syllables are in noli-me-tangere?

noli-me-tangere has 5 syllables and divides as no-li--me--tan-gere under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is noli-me-tangere a common word?

noli-me-tangere is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.