zancha

• zanca, zanga, tzanga, tzanca

From Parthian, equalling Persian ظانگا‎, Ancient Greek τζάγγας, τζάγγια (tzángas, tzángia).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzan.kʰa/, [ˈzaŋ.kʰa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈzan.ka/, [ˈd͡zaŋ.ka]

zancha f (genitive zanchae); first declension

1. a kind of soft Parthian shoe
   • post 259, Trebellius Pollio, Historia Augusta Vita Divi Claudii.17:

     epistola Gallieni […] «[…] Misi autem ad eum pateras gemmatas trilibres duas, scyphos aureos gemmatos trilibres duos, discum corymbiatum argenteum librarum viginti, lancem argenteam pampinatam librarum triginta, paternam argenteam hederaciam librarum viginti et trium, boletar alieuticum argenteum librarum viginti, urceos duos auro inclusos, argenteos librarum sex et in vasis minoribus argenti libras viginti quinque, calices Aegyptios operisque diversi decem, 6 clamydes veri luminis limbatas duas, veste diversas sedecim, albam subsericam, paragaudem triuncem unam, zancas de nostris Parthicas paria tria, singiliones Dalmatenses decem, clamydem Dardanicam mantuelem unam, paenulam Illyricianam unam, bardocucullum unum, cucutia villosa duo, 7 oraria Sarabdena quattuor, aureos Valerianos centum quinquaginta, trientes Saloninianos trecentos.»

First declension.

• Italian: zanca
• Spanish: chancla, chanca
• Spanish: zanca

• zancha in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zancha in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tzangae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• zancha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• zancha in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers