Lancelot
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.
Related to Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lancelot (countable and uncountable, plural Lancelots)
- (Arthurian legend) One of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Synonym: Lance
- 1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:
- "What's the first name?" - - -
"I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
"Good God!" said Archie.
"It couldn't really be that, could it?"
Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
"It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."
- A surname.
- A ghost town in the Mid North region, South Australia, Australia.
Translations
the knight
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French Lancelot.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lancelot m
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French Lancelot.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lancelot m
- (Arthurian legend) Lancelot
- a male given name from Middle French, equivalent to English Lancelot
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French Lancelot.
Proper noun
Lancelot
Descendants
- French: Lancelot
Old French
Etymology
From Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.
Cognate with Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).
Proper noun
Lancelot m (nominative singular Lanceloz)
Descendants
- Middle French: Lancelot