zancha
Latin
Alternative forms
- zanca, zanga, tzanga, tzanca
Etymology
From Parthian, equalling Persian ظانگا. The Late Latin term (as the plural tzangae), is found only as a transcription[1][2] in Hellenistic Koine Greek τζάγγη, plural τζάγγαι (tzángē, plural tzángai) from which, the Mediaeval Greek τζαγγίον n (tzangíon, “a Byzantine kind of shoe”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈzan.kʰa/, [ˈd̪͡z̪äŋkʰä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡zan.ka/, [ˈd̪͡z̪äŋkä]
Noun
zancha f (genitive zanchae); first declension
- 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.»
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | zancha | zanchae |
| Genitive | zanchae | zanchārum |
| Dative | zanchae | zanchīs |
| Accusative | zancham | zanchās |
| Ablative | zanchā | zanchīs |
| Vocative | zancha | zanchae |
Descendants
- Catalan: xanca
- Galician: zanca, chanca
- Italian: zanca
- Spanish: zanca, chanca, chancla
- → Koine Greek: τζάγγη (tzángē) (a transcription)
- > Byzantine Greek: τζαγγίον n (tzangíon) (inherited)
See also
- Modern Greek: τσαγκάρης m (tsagkáris, “shoemaker”)
References
- "τζάγγη" - Dimitrakos, Dimitrios B. (1964) Μέγα λεξικόν ὅλης τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς γλώσσης [Great Dictionary of the entire Greek Language] (in Greek), Athens: Hellenic Paideia
- “τζάγγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tzangae 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)
- 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
- Rundgren, Frithiof (1957), “Über einige iranische Lehnwörter im Lateinischen und Griechischen”, in Orientalia Suecana, volume 6, pages 52–60