zancha

• zanca, zanga, tzanga, tzanca

From Parthian, equalling Persian ظانگا (zângâ). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to hobble, limp”), similar to English shank.^[1]

The Late Latin term (as the plural tzangae), is found only as a transcription^[2][3] in Koine Greek τζάγγη, plural τζάγγαι (tzángē, plural tzángai) from which, the Mediaeval Greek τζαγγίον n (tzangíon, “a Byzantine kind of shoe”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈzan.kʰa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zan.ka/,

zancha f (genitive zanchae); first declension

1. a kind of soft Parthian shoe
   • post 259, Trebellius Pollio, Historia Augusta Vita Divi Claudii.17:

     epistola Gallieni […] «[…] Misi autem ad eum pateras gemmatas trilibres duas, scyphos aureos gemmatos trilibres duos, discum corymbiatum argenteum librarum viginti, lancem argenteam pampinatam librarum triginta, paternam argenteam hederaciam librarum viginti et trium, boletar alieuticum argenteum librarum viginti, urceos duos auro inclusos, argenteos librarum sex et in vasis minoribus argenti libras viginti quinque, calices Aegyptios operisque diversi decem, 6 clamydes veri luminis limbatas duas, veste diversas sedecim, albam subsericam, paragaudem triuncem unam, zancas de nostris Parthicas paria tria, singiliones Dalmatenses decem, clamydem Dardanicam mantuelem unam, paenulam Illyricianam unam, bardocucullum unum, cucutia villosa duo, 7 oraria Sarabdena quattuor, aureos Valerianos centum quinquaginta, trientes Saloninianos trecentos.»

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: xanca
• Galician: zanca, chanca
• Italian: zanca
• Spanish: zanca, chanca, chancla
• → Koine Greek: τζάγγη (tzángē) (a transcription)
  • > Byzantine Greek: τζαγγίον n (tzangíon) (inherited)

• Modern Greek: τσαγκάρης m (tsagkáris, “shoemaker”)

• “zancha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zancha 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)
• tzangae 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)
• zancha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “zancha”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Rundgren, Frithiof (1957) “Über einige iranische Lehnwörter im Lateinischen und Griechischen”, in Orientalia Suecana‎, volume 6, pages 52–60