lanx

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (declension-3, feminine) dish, platter, plate
2. (declension-3, feminine) scalepan

Sinonieme

patella

patina

scutella

catīnus

Vertalings

plate

prato

plat

Schüssel

dish

schotel

plato

’piato

fuente

scale

طبق

plat

piatto

cup

bowl

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈɫaŋks]

Etimologie (Engels)

Compare Ancient Greek λέκος (lékos, “dish, pan”), λεκάνη (lekánē, “basin, dish”) (whence English lecanomancy). Walde and Hoffmann, and Pokorny, suppose these words inherited from PIE and connected with words meaning "crooked", such as Latin licinus (“bent upward”), luxus (“dislocated”); the root Pokorny assigns is, in updated reconstruction, Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, to turn”). De Vaan objects on phonological and semantic grounds (plates are not crooked) and favours Ernout and Meillet's assumption that Greek and Latin instead share a Mediterranean cultural loanword from substrate languages.