λόγχη

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to hit”), compare Latin lancea (“lance”) and Old Armenian գեղարդն (gełardn, “spear”), or a Semitic borrowing corresponding to Hebrew רֹמַח (rómaḥ, “spear”), Arabic رُمْح (rumḥ, “spear”) etc. (see the Arabic), but Beekes leaves the etymology unexplained.

λόγχη • (lónkhē) f (genitive λόγχης); first declension

1. spearhead
   1. lance, spear, javelin
   2. troop of spearmen

• λογχίον (lonkhíon, “small lance”)
• λόγχιμος (lónkhimos, “belonging to the lance”)
• λογχωτός (lonkhōtós, “provided with a lance”)
• λογχίτης (lonkhítēs, “lance bearer”)
• λογχῖτις (lonkhîtis, “holly fern”)
• λογχεύω (lonkheúō, “to pierce with a lance”)
• λογχάριον (lonkhárion, “a kind of ornament”)

• Greek: λόγχη (lónchi)

• “λόγχη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λόγχη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, page 356

From Ancient Greek λόγχη (lónkhē).

λόγχη • (lónchi) f (plural λόγχες)

1. spear, lance

• δόρυ (dóry)

• λογχίζω (lonchízo, “to spear”)
• λογχοφόρος m (lonchofóros, “spearman”)
• ξιφολόγχη f (xifolónchi, “bayonet”)