lancer

English

Noun

lancer (plural lancers)

1. (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon

Synonyms

• uhlan

Translations

cavalry solider with a lance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長矛輕騎兵 (cmn), 长矛轻骑兵 (cmn) (chángmáo qīngqíbīng)

• Finnish: peitsimies (fi)
• Greek: λογχοφόρος (el) (lonchofóros) m

• Italian: lanciere (it) m
• Lithuanian: ulonas (lt) m
• Russian: улан (ru) (ulan) m, пикейщик (ru) (pikejščik) m, копьеносец (ru) (kopʹjenosec) m

External links

• Lancer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From Old French lancier, from Late Latin lanceāre, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar, Italian lanciare, Occitan and Portuguese lançar, Spanish lanzar.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /lɑ̃.se/, X-SAMPA: /lA~.se/

Verb

lancer

1. to throw
2. to start, to launch

Conjugation

• This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

   Conjugation of lancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		lancer			avoir lancé
gerund		en lançant			en ayant lancé
present participle		lançant
past participle		lancé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	lance	lances	lance	lançons	lancez	lancent
	imperfect	lançais	lançais	lançait	lancions	lanciez	lançaient
	past historic1	lançai	lanças	lança	lançâmes	lançâtes	lancèrent
	future	lancerai	lanceras	lancera	lancerons	lancerez	lanceront
	conditional	lancerais	lancerais	lancerait	lancerions	lanceriez	lanceraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	lance	lances	lance	lancions	lanciez	lancent
	imperfect1	lançasse	lançasses	lançât	lançassions	lançassiez	lançassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	lance	—	lançons	lancez	—
1literary tenses

Synonyms

• jeter
• projeter

Noun

lancer m (plural lancers)

1. a throw
2. (baseball) a pitch

Related terms

• lance
• lancé
• lancée
• lancement
• lanceur
• lance-bombes
• lance-flammes
• lance-missiles
• lance-pierre
• relancer