Words that come from Latin “lancea”

142 words across 35 languages descend from Latin lancea — including lance, freelance, lances, lancet, lanceolate, elan, freelancer, lancer.

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English (27)

French (13)

Italian (12)

Spanish (11)

Portuguese (9)

Latin (8)

Finnish (7)

German (5)

Hungarian (4)

Ido (4)

Old French (4)

Romanian (4)

Esperanto (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Catalan (2)

Dutch (2)

Faroese (2)

Asturian (2)

Japanese (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Late Latin (2)

Friulian (1)

Middle French (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Danish (1)

Korean (1)

Galician (1)

Occitan (1)

Malay (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Swedish (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Middle High German (1)