glans

Learned borrowing from Latin glāns (“acorn”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡlænz/

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• Rhymes: -ænz

glans (plural glandes or (rare) glans)

1. (anatomy) A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals.

   Synonyms: balanus, (archaic) nut

   Hyponyms: glans penis or penile glans, glans clitoridis or clitoral glans

   1. Ellipsis of glans penis or penile glans.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:glans penis

   2. Ellipsis of glans clitoridis or clitoral glans.
2. The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
3. (medicine) Synonym of goiter.
4. (gynaecology) Synonym of pessary.

• gland
• glans clitoridis, glans clitoris
• glans penis

• balanic
• balano-

• “glans”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “glans”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• langs, slang

glans

1. plural of gla

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz, Swedish glans.

glans

1. the quality of being shiny
2. glamour, magnificence

Learned borrowing from Latin glāns.

glans

1. the head of the penis

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑns/

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• Rhymes: -ɑns

From Middle Dutch glans (ca. 1400), from Middle High German glanz (“shine, lustre”), whence Modern German Glanz.

glans m (uncountable, diminutive glansje n)

1. lustre, shine, shimmer, gloss, glistening
2. (optics) gloss

• Afrikaans: glans

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

glans

1. inflection of glanzen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glans1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• langs, slang

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz, Swedish glans.

glans m (genitive singular glans, no plural)

1. shine, lustre, sheen

• glansa

• glandō (post-classical)

From Proto-Italic *glānts, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɫãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡlans]

glāns f (genitive glandis); third declension

1. (literal) an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut
2. (transferred sense)
   1. (weaponry) an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy
   2. (New Latin, firearms) a bullet
   3. (anatomy) the glans penis

Third-declension noun.

See also glandula.

• “glans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "glans", 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)
• “glans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• For the descendants:

  Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “landre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 574

  Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “glans, -andem”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 147

  Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “gránde”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

From German Glanz (sense 1), and Latin glans (sense 3).

glans m (definite singular glansen, indefinite plural glanser, definite plural glansene)

1. gloss, lustre (UK) or luster (US), sheen, brilliance
2. (short form of glansbilde) a glossy print or picture
3. (anatomy) glans

• glansfull

• “glans” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑns/

From German Glanz.

glans m (definite singular glansen, uncountable)

1. gloss, lustre (UK) or luster (US), sheen, brilliance, sparkle, the quality of being shiny
2. a glossy print or picture (short form of glansbilde or glansbilete)
3. glory, magnificence

• glansfull

From Latin glans (“acorn”).

glans m (definite singular glansen, indefinite plural glansar, definite plural glansane)

1. (anatomy) glans

• “glans” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Glanz, from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz, from Proto-Germanic *glantaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlond-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlend-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlans/
• Rhymes: -ans
• Syllabification: glans

glans m inan

1. (colloquial) gleam, lustre, shine

   Synonyms: blask, glanc, połysk

• glans in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• glans in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz.

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glans c

1. shine, gloss, sheen

   Vilken glans! Du har städat jätteväl.

   What a shine! You've cleaned really well.

2. radiance (of for example the moon)
3. (figuratively) splendor, glory, sheen

   att sola sig i glansen av någon

   to bask in the glory of someone

• glansig (“shiny, glossy”)

• glänsa

• Etymology and the European Lexicon - Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17–22 September 2012, Copenhagen, p. 98

• slang