lancer

Borrowed from French lancier (“lancer”).

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 […]

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• lancer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Inherited from Old French lancier, from Late Latin lanceāre, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar; Italian lanciare; Occitan and Portuguese lançar; Spanish lanzar.

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.se/

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lancer

1. to throw

   Synonyms: jeter, projeter

2. to start, to launch
3. to call out, yell

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

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

lancer m (plural lancers)

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

• lance

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