lanza

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese lança, from Latin lancea, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from a Celtic language, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“strike”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlanθa̝/

lanza f (plural lanzas)

1. spear
2. lever; shaft
3. strong sunray

• lanzar
• Lanzada
• lanzadeira
• lanzado
• lanzal
• lanzoa
• relanzo

• “lança” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “lanç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lanza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lanza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lanza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

lanza f (plural lanez)

1. spear

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈlanθa/, [ˈlãn̟θa]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈlansa/, [ˈlãnsa]

From Old Spanish lança, from Latin lancea, of Celtiberian origin.

lanza f (plural lanzas)

1. lance, spear, glaive

• lancero
• lanzar

lanza m (plural lanzas)

1. Clipping of lanzaperfume.

See the etymology of the main entry.

lanza

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of lanzar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of lanzar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of lanzar.

• “lanza” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.