Etymology

launce

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Today it means: sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae Full definition →

Italian lance ← Latin lanx
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launce · noun, verb1

See lance.

launce · noun2

  1. Latin · borrowed fromlanx
  2. Italian · borrowed fromlance
  3. English todaylaunce

From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance.

Words from the same roots

Latinlanx all →

lanx

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