lancea

See also: lanceá

Latin

Alternative forms

• lancia (late, proscribed)

Etymology

Ultimately from Celtic or Celtiberian, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to hit”). Compare with Ancient Greek λόγχη (lónkhē). See also plācō, plāgō, plangō and plēctō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ke.a/, [ˈɫ̪äŋkeä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlan.t͡ʃe.a/, [ˈlän̠ʲt͡ʃeä]

Noun

lancea f (genitive lanceae); first declension

1. The Roman auxiliaries' short javelin; a light spear or lance.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lancea	lanceae
genitive	lanceae	lanceārum
dative	lanceae	lanceīs
accusative	lanceam	lanceās
ablative	lanceā	lanceīs
vocative	lancea	lanceae

Derived terms

• lanceārius
• lanceō
• lanceola

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: λαγκία (lankía)
• Asturian: llanza, llancia
• Catalan: llança
• Danish: lanse
• Dutch: lans
• English: lance
• Esperanto: lanco
• Faroese: lansi
• Old French: lance
  • Franc-Comtois: laince
  • Middle French: lance
    • French: lance
  • → Middle English: launce
    • English: lance
  • → Middle High German: lanze
    • German: Lanze
• Friulian: lance
• Galician: lanza
• German: Lanze
• Hungarian: lándzsa
• Ido: lanco
• Italian: lancia
• Mirandese: lhança
• Occitan: lança
• Portuguese: lança
• Romanian: lance
• Sardinian: lantza
• Sicilian: lanza
• Spanish: lanza
• Swedish: lans
• Venetan: lansa

See also

• pīlum
• spīculum
• verūtum

References

• “lancea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lancea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lancea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lancea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lancea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “lancea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 832
• Carr, Thomas Swinburne (1836). A manual of Roman antiquities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 232 note.[2]
• Glossary of Latin Words, Bible History Online. (File retrieved 12-12-08)[3]

Spanish

Verb

lancea

1. inflection of lancear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative