lancer

English

Etymology

From French lancier (“lancer”).

Noun

lancer (plural lancers)

1. (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
2. (entomology) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
3. One who lances something.
   • 1968, Journal of Secondary Education:

     The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]

Synonyms

• uhlan

Coordinate terms

• cavalryman
• cuirassier
• dragoon
• hussar
• trooper
• uhlan
• yeoman

Translations

cavalry soldier with a lance

• Catalan: llancer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長矛輕騎兵／长矛轻骑兵 (chángmáo qīngqíbīng)

• Dutch: lansier (nl) m
• Finnish: peitsimies
• French: lancier (fr) m
• Greek: λογχοφόρος (el) m (lonchofóros)
• Ido: lanciero (io)
• Italian: lanciere m
• Lithuanian: ulonas m
• Persian: نیزه‌ور (neyze-var)
• Polish: ułan (pl) m, lansjer (pl) m
• Russian: ула́н (ru) m (ulán), пике́йщик m (pikéjščik), копьеносец (ru) m (kopʹjenosec)

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/

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Verb

lancer

1. to throw

   Synonyms: jeter, projeter

2. to start, to launch
3. 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'.

Conjugation of lancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lancer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lançant /lɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lancé /lɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lance /lɑ̃s/	lances /lɑ̃s/	lance /lɑ̃s/	lançons /lɑ̃.sɔ̃/	lancez /lɑ̃.se/	lancent /lɑ̃s/
	imperfect	lançais /lɑ̃.sɛ/	lançais /lɑ̃.sɛ/	lançait /lɑ̃.sɛ/	lancions /lɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	lanciez /lɑ̃.sje/	lançaient /lɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	lançai /lɑ̃.se/	lanças /lɑ̃.sa/	lança /lɑ̃.sa/	lançâmes /lɑ̃.sam/	lançâtes /lɑ̃.sat/	lancèrent /lɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	lancerai /lɑ̃.sʁe/	lanceras /lɑ̃.sʁa/	lancera /lɑ̃.sʁa/	lancerons /lɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	lancerez /lɑ̃.sʁe/	lanceront /lɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lancerais /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/	lancerais /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/	lancerait /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/	lancerions /lɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	lanceriez /lɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	lanceraient /lɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	lance /lɑ̃s/	lances /lɑ̃s/	lance /lɑ̃s/	lancions /lɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	lanciez /lɑ̃.sje/	lancent /lɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	lançasse /lɑ̃.sas/	lançasses /lɑ̃.sas/	lançât /lɑ̃.sa/	lançassions /lɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	lançassiez /lɑ̃.sa.sje/	lançassent /lɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lance /lɑ̃s/	—	lançons /lɑ̃.sɔ̃/	lancez /lɑ̃.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• lancé
• lance et compte
• lance-bombes
• lance-flammes
• lance-missiles
• lance-pierre
• lancée
• lancement
• lancer un pavé dans la mare
• lanceur
• lanceuse
• relancer

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: lanceren
• → German: lancieren
• → Persian: لانسه (lânse)
• → Turkish: lanse
• → Vietnamese: lăng xê

Noun

lancer m (plural lancers)

1. a throw
2. (baseball) a pitch
3. (field hockey or ice hockey) a shot

Derived terms

• lancer de nain
• lancer du disque
• lancer du javelot
• lancer du marteau
• lancer du poids

 

Related terms

• lance

Further reading

• “lancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.