lancea

• lancia (late, proscribed)

Ultimately from Celtic or Celtiberian, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to hit”). Compare with Ancient Greek λόγχη (lónkhē). See also plācō, plāgō, plangō and plēctō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaŋ.ke.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlan̠ʲ.t͡ʃe.a]

lancea f (genitive lanceae); first declension

1. The Roman auxiliaries' short javelin; a light spear or lance.

First-declension noun.

• lanceārius
• lanceō
• lanceola

• pīlum
• spīculum
• verūtum

• “lancea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lancea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lancea", 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)
• lancea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lancea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “lancea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 832
• Carr, Thomas Swinburne (1836). A manual of Roman antiquities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 232 note.[2]
• Glossary of Latin Words, Bible History Online. (File retrieved 12-12-08)[3]

lancea

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