ланац

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Middle High German lanne (“chain”) +‎ -ац, 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 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǎːnats/
• Hyphenation: ла‧нац

Noun

ла́нац m (Latin spelling lánac)

1. chain

Declension

Declension of ланац

	singular	plural
nominative	ланац	ланци
genitive	ланца	ланаца
dative	ланцу	ланцима
accusative	ланац	ланце
vocative	ланче	ланци
locative	ланцу	ланцима
instrumental	ланцем	ланцима

Derived terms

• ла̀нчанӣ

References

• Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “ланац”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN