lanza

See also: Lanza

Galician

Knights and soldiers armed with swords and lanzas ("spears"), Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lança, from Latin lancea, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from a Celtic language, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“strike”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈlanθa/ [ˈlan̪.θɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈlanθa/ [ˈlan̪.θɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈlansa/ [ˈlan.sɐ]

 

• Rhymes: -anθa

• Rhymes: -anθa
• Rhymes: -ansa

• Hyphenation: lan‧za

Noun

lanza f (plural lanzas)

1. spear
   • 1459, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 340:

     Gonçaluo Rodrigues d'Olueda deu querella do dito prouisor et de seus omes, que tragendo él en este dia ena sua sua viña de tras lo Castello seys omes arrendando e labrando sua viña que seyran a él do dito castello sete omes et que aderençaran a hun seu fillo, que á nome Pedro, et a hun seu criado que lle deran con asta tras lo pescoço et aos ditos labradores que deran hua ferrida ena testa con hua lança et a outro labrador que lle deran quatro feridas, de que entendía que non escaparía, et correran pos elles

     Gonzalo Rodríguez de Olveda gave a complaint of said provisor and his men; because bringing he that day, in his vineyard behind the castle, six hired men working his vineyard, that seven men exited said castle to them, and that they came near one of his sons, who has the name Pedro, and that they hit one of his servants in the back of the neck with the shaft; and to said workers, they gave one a wound in the head with a spear, and to other worker they gave four wounds, of which he thought he wouldn't get out, and they ran after them

2. lever; shaft
3. strong sunray

Derived terms

• Lanzada
• lanzadeira
• lanzado
• lanzal
• lanzar
• lanzoa
• relanzo

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lança”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lanç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lanza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lanza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lanza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian lanza, ultimately (perhaps through Old Occitan) from Latin lancea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.t͡sa/

Noun

lanza f (plural lanez)

1. spear
2. fishing line

Spanish

lanza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈlanθa/ [ˈlãn̟.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈlansa/ [ˈlãn.sa]
• Rhymes: -anθa
• Rhymes: -ansa
• Syllabification: lan‧za

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish lança, from Latin lancea, of Celtiberian origin.

Noun

lanza f (plural lanzas)

1. lance, spear, glaive

Derived terms

• alancear
• lanza larga (“quarterstaff”)
• lanzada
• lanzazo
• lanzón
• lanzuela
• romper una lanza

 

Related terms

• lancero
• lanzar

 

Etymology 2

Noun

lanza m (plural lanzas)

1. Clipping of lanzaperfume.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lanza

1. inflection of lanzar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “lanza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10