lanx

English

Etymology

Latin lanx

Noun

lanx (plural lances)

1. A platter or dish for serving food in Ancient Rome.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *li-, *lAy-, *elAy-, *el- (“to bend”). Compare Latin licinus (“bent upward”), luxus (“dislocated”) and Ancient Greek λέκος (lékos, “dish, pan”), whence English lecanomancy.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lanks/, [ɫ̪äŋks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lanks/, [läŋks]

Noun

lanx f (genitive lancis); third declension

1. dish, platter, plate
2. scalepan

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lanx	lancēs
Genitive	lancis	lancum
Dative	lancī	lancibus
Accusative	lancem	lancēs
Ablative	lance	lancibus
Vocative	lanx	lancēs

Derived terms

• bilanx

References

• “lanx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lanx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lanx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lanx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lanx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin