lanț

Through Hungarian lánc from Middle High German lanne (“chain”) with a Slavic suffix *-ьcь, the Middle High German from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ла́нац (“chain”), Slovene lanec (“chain”), Macedonian and Bulgarian ланец (lanec, “golden or silver chain”), South and Western Russian ланцу́г (lancúg, “chain”), Polish łańcuch (“chain”), Czech and Slovak lano (“cable, rope”).

• IPA^(key): /lant͡s/

lanț n (plural lanțuri)

1. chain

• dezlănțui
• lănțuș

• “lanț”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025