lançar

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See also: lancar

Galician

Verb

lançar (first-person singular present lanço, first-person singular preterite lancei, past participle lançado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of lanzar

Conjugation

Further reading

  • lançar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Late Latin lanceāre, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar, French lancer, Italian lanciare, Portuguese lançar, Spanish lanzar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

lançar

  1. to throw
    Synonym: bandir

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Derived terms

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin lanceāre, derived from Latin lancea (spear), from Celtiberian.

Pronunciation

Verb

lançar

  1. to throw
    • Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſa mari por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.
      How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

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Descendants

  • Galician: lanzar
  • Portuguese: lançar (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lançar, from Late Latin lanceāre (to throw a spear), derived from Latin lancea (spear), from Celtiberian. Doublet of lancear.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: lan‧çar

Verb

lançar (first-person singular present lanço, first-person singular preterite lancei, past participle lançado)

  1. (transitive) to launch
  2. (transitive) to throw, shoot (with force)
  3. (transitive) to release, publish (make available to the public)

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Quotations

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Descendants

Further reading