lance
French
noun
Definitions
- a spear, lance
- (military) a soldier armed with a lance; a lancer
- a hose
Etymology
Inherited from Old French lance inherited from Latin lancea (lance, spear, light spear, short javelin, long spear).
Origin
Latin
lancea
Gloss
lance, spear, light spear, short javelin, long spear
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
戈
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- demilance English
- freelance English
- lance English
- lanceable English
- lancefish English
- lancehead English
- lanceless English
- lancelike English
- lancely English
- lancepod English
- lanceth English
- lancewood English
- lanciform English
- microlance English
- oxylance English
- lancea Latin
- lanceifolius Latin
- lanceo Latin
- lanceo, lanceāre Latin
- lanceola Latin
- lanceāre Latin
- lanceārius Latin
- lanciarius Latin
- lancifolius Latin
- Lanze German
- lancia Italian
- lans Dutch, Flemish
- lansknecht Dutch, Flemish
- lancement French
- lancette French
- lancier French
- relancement French
- ланце́т Russian
- *pleh₂k- Proto-Indo-European
- lanse Norwegian Bokmål
- lanceiro Portuguese
- lança Portuguese
- lanse Norwegian Nynorsk
- lanse Danish
- lance Old French
- lancete Old French
- lanco Esperanto
- lanze Middle High German
- lance Middle French
- lança Old Portuguese
- llanza Asturian
- lance Friulian
- lansa Old Occitan
- lança Old Spanish