lanx

Latin lanx

lanx (plural lances)

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

From Proto-Indo-European *li-, *lAy-, *elAy-, *el- (“to bend”)[1]. Compare Latin licinus (“bent upward”), luxus (“dislocated”) and Ancient Greek λέκος (lékos, “dish, pan”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lanks/, [ɫaŋks]

lanx f (genitive lancis); third declension

1. dish, platter, plate
2. scalepan

Third declension.

• bilanx

• 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