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Looks like the word cancel comes from an early Latin word for lattice: “from Latin cancellare ‘to make like a lattice,’ which in Late Latin took on especially a sense ‘cross out something written’ by marking it with crossed lines.” Also by turns related to Latin carcer from which carceral and incarceration.

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