phalanga
Latin
Alternative forms
- falanga, palanga, palanca (manuscripts variants)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ, φᾰ́λᾰγγᾰ (phálanx, phálanga). Compare phalanx.
Noun
phalanga f (genitive phalangae); first declension
- wooden roller (for moving ships or military engines)
- carrying pole
- alternative form of phalanx (“battalion”)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | phalanga | phalangae |
Genitive | phalangae | phalangārum |
Dative | phalangae | phalangīs |
Accusative | phalangam | phalangās |
Ablative | phalangā | phalangīs |
Vocative | phalanga | phalangae |
Descendants
- Romanian: părângă
- Italian: palanca (“board”)
- → Alemannic German: Palangge
- Italian: paranco (“hoist”), palanco
- → French: palan
- Vietnamese: pa lăng
- → Ottoman Turkish: پلانقه (palanka, “block-and-tackle”)
- Turkish: palanga
- → French: palan
- Franco-Provençal: planche, palanche, pilanche
- → French: palanche
- >? Old French: planche (“plank”), planke, planque
- Anglo-Norman: planke (see there for further descendants)
- French: planche (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: plianche
- Old Occitan:
- Old Catalan: palanca, planca
- Catalan: palanca (“gangplank, lever, diving-board”)
- Occitan: plaunca
- Old Catalan: palanca, planca
- Sardinian: palanga
- West Iberian
- Asturian: llancha (“small boat”)
- Old Portuguese: *paanca
- Galician: panca (“lever, shaft”)
- Portuguese: panca (“lever”)
- Old Spanish: palanca
- Spanish: palanca (“lever, handle”)
- →? Albanian: pleng (“heavy object”)
- → Italian: falanga
- → Polish: falanga
References
- phalanga 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)
- “phalanga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “phalanga” in volume 10.1.2, column 1994, line 9 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present