lancer

English

Etymology

From French lancier (“lancer”).

Noun

lancer (plural lancers)

1. (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
2. (entomology) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
3. One who lances something.
   • 1968, Journal of Secondary Education:

     The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]

Synonyms

• uhlan

Coordinate terms

• cavalryman
• cuirassier
• dragoon
• hussar
• trooper
• uhlan
• yeoman

Translations

cavalry soldier with a lance

• Catalan: llancer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長矛輕騎兵／长矛轻骑兵 (chángmáo qīngqíbīng)

• Dutch: lansier (nl) m
• Finnish: peitsimies
• French: lancier (fr) m
• Greek: λογχοφόρος (el) m (lonchofóros)
• Ido: lanciero (io)
• Italian: lanciere m
• Lithuanian: ulonas m
• Persian: نیزه‌ور (neyze-var)
• Polish: ułan (pl) m, lansjer (pl) m
• Russian: ула́н (ru) m (ulán), пике́йщик m (pikéjščik), копьеносец (ru) m (kopʹjenosec)

Further reading

• lancer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carlen, necral

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French lancier, from Late Latin lanceāre, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar; Italian lanciare; Occitan and Portuguese lançar; Spanish lanzar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.se/

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Verb

lancer

1. to throw

   Synonyms: jeter, projeter

2. to start, to launch
3. to call out, yell

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of lancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lancer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lançant /lɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		lancé /lɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lance /lɑ̃s/	lances /lɑ̃s/	lance /lɑ̃s/	lançons /lɑ̃.sɔ̃/	lancez /lɑ̃.se/	lancent /lɑ̃s/
	imperfect	lançais /lɑ̃.sɛ/	lançais /lɑ̃.sɛ/	lançait /lɑ̃.sɛ/	lancions /lɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	lanciez /lɑ̃.sje/	lançaient /lɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	lançai /lɑ̃.se/	lanças /lɑ̃.sa/	lança /lɑ̃.sa/	lançâmes /lɑ̃.sam/	lançâtes /lɑ̃.sat/	lancèrent /lɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	lancerai /lɑ̃.sʁe/	lanceras /lɑ̃.sʁa/	lancera /lɑ̃.sʁa/	lancerons /lɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	lancerez /lɑ̃.sʁe/	lanceront /lɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lancerais /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/	lancerais /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/	lancerait /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/	lancerions /lɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	lanceriez /lɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	lanceraient /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	lance /lɑ̃s/	lances /lɑ̃s/	lance /lɑ̃s/	lancions /lɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	lanciez /lɑ̃.sje/	lancent /lɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	lançasse /lɑ̃.sas/	lançasses /lɑ̃.sas/	lançât /lɑ̃.sa/	lançassions /lɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	lançassiez /lɑ̃.sa.sje/	lançassent /lɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lance /lɑ̃s/	—	lançons /lɑ̃.sɔ̃/	lancez /lɑ̃.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• lancé
• lance et compte
• lance-bombes
• lance-flammes
• lance-missiles
• lance-pierre
• lancée
• lancement
• lancer un pavé dans la mare
• lanceur
• lanceuse
• relancer

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: lanceren
• → German: lancieren
• → Persian: لانسه (lânse)
• → Romanian: lansa
• → Turkish: lanse
• → Vietnamese: lăng xê

Noun

lancer m (plural lancers)

1. a throw
2. (baseball) a pitch
3. (field hockey or ice hockey) a shot

Derived terms

• lancer de nain
• lancer du disque
• lancer du javelot
• lancer du marteau
• lancer du poids

 

Related terms

• lance

Further reading

• “lancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.