lanx

Meaning

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

Concepts

plate

dish

scale

bowl

cup

platter

Synonyms

patella

patina

scutella

catīnus

Translations

prato

Schüssel

schotel

plat

plato

’piato

طبق

plat

piatto

fuente

Tasse

Servierteller

assiette

met

صحْن

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɫaŋks]

Etymology

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.