lanx

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English

Etymology

From Latin lanx.

Noun

lanx (plural lances)

  1. (historical) A platter or dish for serving food in Ancient Rome.

Latin

Etymology

Compare Ancient Greek λέκος (lékos, “dish, pan”), λεκάνη (lekánē, “basin, dish”) (whence English lecanomancy). Walde and Hoffmann, and Pokorny, suppose these words inherited from PIE and connected with words meaning "crooked", such as Latin licinus (“bent upward”), luxus (“dislocated”); the root Pokorny assigns[1] is, in updated reconstruction, *Heh₃l- (“to bend, to turn”). De Vaan objects on phonological and semantic grounds (plates are not crooked) and favours Ernout and Meillet's assumption that Greek and Latin instead share a Mediterranean cultural loanword from substrate languages.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

lanx f (genitive lancis); third declension

  1. dish, platter, plate
  2. scalepan

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lanx lancēs
Genitive lancis lancum
Dative lancī lancibus
Accusative lancem lancēs
Ablative lance lancibus
Vocative lanx lancēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: lance

References

  • “lanx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lanx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lanx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lanx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “lanx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “ĕl-ĕq-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 308-309
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lanx”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 326
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