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Latin
Etymology
lancea (“short javelin”, “light spear”, “lance”) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs)
Pronunciation
Verb
lanceō (present infinitive lanceāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin, intransitive) to wield or handle a lance
- (Medieval Latin, transitive, construed with accusative of object) to launch or shoot (especially something akin to a javelin or spear)
- (Medieval Latin, transitive, construed with accusative of person) to pierce (someone) through with a pike, sword, dagger, vel sim.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (I launch, shoot): mittō (Classical)
Descendants
References
- “lancĕo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 1. Lanceare 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)
- 2. Lanceare 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)
- 3. Lanceare, Lanciare 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)
- lancĕo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 885/2.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “lanceare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 580/1
Spanish
Verb
lanceo
- first-person singular present indicative of lancear