lance
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: läns, IPA(key): /lɑːns/
- (US) enPR: lăns, IPA(key): /læns/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːns, -æns
Noun
[edit]lance (plural lances)
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], line 15:
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65:
- The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 49:
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- (medicine) A lancet.
Derived terms
[edit]- break a lance
- break one's lance
- fer-de-lance
- fire lance
- freelance
- lance bombardier
- lance bucket (cavalry)
- lance corporal
- lance-corporal
- lance fish (zoology)
- lance-jack
- lance-knight
- lance knight
- lancer
- lance rest
- lance sergeant
- lance snake (zoology)
- oxygen lance
- sand lance
- stink-fire lance (military)
- thermal lance
- thermic lance
- the tongue wounds more than a lance
Related terms
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Verb
[edit]lance (third-person singular simple present lances, present participle lancing, simple past and past participle lanced)
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
- To open with a lancet; to pierce.
- to lance a vein or an abscess
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
- (informal) to steal or swipe
- He lanced my drink and spiked it!
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:lance.
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See also
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /lɑ̃s/
- Homophones: lancent, lances
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Noun
[edit]lance f (plural lances)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]lance
- inflection of lancer:
Derived terms
[edit]- lance-roquette
- relance (form of verb relancer)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lance f (plural lancis)
- lance, spear
Related terms
[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]lance
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of lançar:
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lance f pl
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlan.ke/, [ˈɫ̪äŋkɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlan.t͡ʃe/, [ˈlän̠ʲt͡ʃe]
Noun
[edit]lance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lance
- Alternative form of launce
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]lance
- Alternative form of launcen
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French lance.
Noun
[edit]lance f (plural lances)
Descendants
[edit]- French: lance
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lance oblique singular, f (oblique plural lances, nominative singular lance, nominative plural lances)
- lance (weapon)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: lance
- French: lance
- → Middle English: launce
- English: lance
- → Middle High German: lanze
- German: Lanze
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lance m (plural lances)
- throw (act of throwing something)
- Synonyms: arremesso, jogada, lançamento
- bid (offer at an auction)
- Synonym: lanço
- (sports) a series of actions carried out during a game
- Synonym: jogada
- (informal) thing (only used for non-physical things)
- flight (series of stairs between landings)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]lance
- inflection of lançar:
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian lancia (18th century).
Noun
[edit]lance f (plural lănci)
Declension
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈlanθe/ [ˈlãn̟.θe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈlanse/ [ˈlãn.se]
- Rhymes: -anθe
- Rhymes: -anse
- Syllabification: lan‧ce
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lance m (plural lances)
- launch (act of launching)
- Synonym: lanzamiento
- throw
- cast (fishing)
- situation
- telling-off; scolding
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]lance
- inflection of lanzar:
Further reading
[edit]- “lance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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