glans

glans

See also: gläns

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glāns (“an acorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlænz/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ænz

Noun

glans (plural glandes or (rare) glans)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of glans penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:glans penis

2. (anatomy) Ellipsis of clitoral glans.
3. The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
4. (medicine) Synonym of goiter.
5. (gynaecology) Synonym of pessary.

Related terms

• gland

Translations

glans penis — see glans penis

clitoral glans — see clitoral glans

acorn or mast of the oak

Bulgarian: дъбов жълъд m (dǎbov žǎlǎd) Czech: žalud (cs) m Dutch: eikel (nl) m Finnish: terho (fi) French: gland (fr) m German: Eichel (de) f Ido: glano (io) Korean: 도토리 (ko) (dotori) Swedish: ekollon (sv) n

goiter — see goitre

pessary — see pessary

See also

• balanic

Further reading

• “glans”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “glans”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• langs, slang

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Catalan

Noun

glans

1. plural of gla

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Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz, Swedish glans.

Noun

glans

1. the quality of being shiny
2. glamour, magnificence

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin glāns.

Noun

glans

1. the head of the penis

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑns/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɑns

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch glans (ca. 1400), from Middle High German glanz (“shine, lustre”), whence Modern German Glanz.

Noun

glans m (uncountable, diminutive glansje n)

1. lustre, shine, shimmer, gloss, glistening
2. (optics) gloss

Related terms

• glanzen
• ontglanzen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

glans

1. first-person singular present indicative of glanzen
2. imperative of glanzen

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glans1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams

• langs, slang

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Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz, Swedish glans.

Noun

glans m (genitive singular glans, no plural)

1. shine, lustre, sheen

Declension

declension of glans

m-s1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	glans	glansinn
accusative	glans	glansinn
dative	glans	glansinum
genitive	glans	glansins

Related terms

• glansa

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Latin

Alternative forms

• glandō (post-classical)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *glānts, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡlans/, [ɡɫ̪ä̃ːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡlans/, [ɡläns]

Noun

glāns f (genitive glandis); third declension

1. (literally) an acorn, nut; any acorn-shaped fruit; a beechnut, chestnut
2. (transferred sense)
   1. (weaponry) an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy
   2. (New Latin, firearms) a bullet
   3. (anatomy) the glans penis

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glāns	glandēs
Genitive	glandis	glandum
Dative	glandī	glandibus
Accusative	glandem	glandēs
Ablative	glande	glandibus
Vocative	glāns	glandēs

Derived terms

• glandārius
• glandifer
• glandium
• glandula
• iūglāns

 

Descendants

See also glandula.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: gljindã
  • Romanian: ghindă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ghianda, ajjanna (Reati)
  • Sicilian: ghianna

    Calabrian: aghianda

• Padanian:
  • Friulian: gland, glant
  • Ladin: gian
  • Piedmontese: giand, agian, gianda
  • Romansch: glogn, glonda, galonda, glanda
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: glland, agllan, allan, llan

    Valdôtain: llande, llan

  • Old French: glant, glande
    • French: gland, glande
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: glan

    Belsetán: lan

    Ribagorçan: llan

  • Old Catalan: glan, aglan
    • Catalan: gla, aglá
  • Old Occitan: glan, aglan
    • Occitan: agland (silent ⟨d⟩)

      Gascon: gland

      Vivaro-Alpine: gland, alhand

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: llande
  • Portuguese: lande
  • Spanish: lande (Álava), llande (regional?)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:

    Campidanese: landi

    Logudorese: lande, landa

    Nuorese: grande, lande, lanne

• Vulgar Latin: glandinis
  • Neapolitan: ghialne (Andria)
  • Piedmontese: giandr
  • Sardinian: landiri (Campidanese)
  • Spanish: landre
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: gland
  • → English: gland, glans
  • → French: glande
  • → Galician: glande
  • → Italian: glande
  • → Portuguese: glande
  • → Romanian: gland
  • → Russian: гла́нды (glándy)
  • → Spanish: glande

References

• “glans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• glans 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)
• “glans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• For the descendants:

  Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “landre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 574

  Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “glans, -andem”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 147

  Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “gránde”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Glanz (sense 1), and Latin glans (sense 3).

Noun

glans m (definite singular glansen, indefinite plural glanser, definite plural glansene)

1. gloss, lustre (UK) or luster (US), sheen, brilliance
2. (short form of glansbilde) a glossy print or picture
3. (anatomy) glans

Derived terms

• glansfull

Further reading

• “glans” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑns/

Etymology 1

From German Glanz.

Noun

glans m (definite singular glansen, uncountable)

1. gloss, lustre (UK) or luster (US), sheen, brilliance, sparkle, the quality of being shiny
2. a glossy print or picture (short form of glansbilde or glansbilete)
3. glory, magnificence

Derived terms

• glansfull

Etymology 2

From Latin glans (“acorn”).

Noun

glans m (definite singular glansen, indefinite plural glansar, definite plural glansane)

1. (anatomy) glans

Further reading

• “glans” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Glanz, from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz, from Proto-Germanic *glantaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlond-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlend-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlans/
• Rhymes: -ans
• Syllabification: glans

Noun

glans m inan

1. (colloquial) gleam, lustre, shine

   Synonyms: blask, glanc, połysk

Declension

Declension of glans

	singular
nominative	glans
genitive	glansu
dative	glansowi
accusative	glans
instrumental	glansem
locative	glansie
vocative	glansie

Derived terms

adverb

• na glans

 

verb

• glansować impf

 

Further reading

• glans in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• glans in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

glans c

1. shine, gloss, sheen

   Vilken glans! Du har städat jätteväl.

   What a shine! You've cleaned really well.

2. radiance (of for example the moon)
3. (figuratively) splendor, glory, sheen

   att sola sig i glansen av någon

   to bask in the glory of someone

Derived terms

• glansig (“shiny, glossy”)

Related terms

• glänsa

Further reading

• Etymology and the European Lexicon - Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17–22 September 2012, Copenhagen, p. 98

Anagrams

• slang