lancer

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French lancier (“lancer”). === Noun === lancer (plural lancers) (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon. (entomology) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia. One who lances something. ==== Synonyms ==== uhlan ==== Coordinate terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== lancer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Carlen, necral == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French lancier, from Late Latin lanceāre, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar; Italian lanciare; Occitan and Portuguese lançar; Spanish lanzar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɑ̃.se/ === Verb === lancer to throw Synonyms: jeter, projeter to start, to launch to call out, yell ==== Conjugation ==== This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: lanceren → German: lancieren → Persian: لانسه (lânse) → Romanian: lansa → Turkish: lanse → Vietnamese: lăng xê === Noun === lancer m (plural lancers) a throw (baseball) a pitch (field hockey or ice hockey) a shot ==== Derived terms ==== === Related terms === lance === Further reading === “lancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012