phalanga

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx). Compare Latin phalanx.

Noun

phalanga f (genitive phalangae); first declension

1. Wooden roller (for moving ships or military engines)
2. pole for carrying things

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phalanga	phalangae
Genitive	phalangae	phalangārum
Dative	phalangae	phalangīs
Accusative	phalangam	phalangās
Ablative	phalangā	phalangīs
Vocative	phalanga	phalangae

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: părângă
• Italian: palanca
  • → Alemannic German: Palangge
• Italian: paranco, palanco
  • → French: palan
    • Vietnamese: pa lăng
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پلانقه (palanka, “block-and-tackle”)
    • Turkish: palanga
• Old French: (probably) planche, planke, planque
  • Anglo-Norman: planke (see there for further descendants)
  • French: planche (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: plianche
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llancha
• Old Galician-Portuguese: *paanca:
  • Galician: panca
  • Portuguese: panca
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: palanca
• → Albanian: pleng (possibly)
• → Italian: falanga
• → Polish: falanga
• → Russian: планка (planka)

References

• phalanga 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)
• “phalanga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers