phalanga

Latin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φᾰ́λᾰγγᾰ (phálanga), the accusative singular form of φάλαγξ (phálanx). Compare phalanx.

phalanga f (genitive phalangae); first declension

First-declension noun.

Romanian: părângă
Italian: palanca (“board”)
- → Alemannic German: Palangge
Italian: paranco (“hoist”), palanco
- → French: palan
  - Vietnamese: pa lăng
- → Ottoman Turkish: پلانقه (palanka, “block-and-tackle”)
  - Turkish: palanga
Franco-Provençal: planche, palanche, pilanche
- → French: palanche
>? Old French: planche (“plank”), planke, planque
- Anglo-Norman: planke (see there for further descendants)
- French: planche (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: plianche
Old Occitan:
- Old Catalan: palanca, planca
  - Catalan: palanca (“gangplank, lever, diving-board”)
- Occitan: plaunca
Sardinian: palanga
West Iberian
- Asturian: llancha (“small boat”)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: *paanca
  - Galician: panca (“lever, shaft”)
  - Portuguese: panca (“lever”)
- Old Spanish: palanca
  - Spanish: palanca (“lever, handle”)
→? Albanian: pleng (“heavy object”)
→ Italian: falanga
→ Polish: falanga

phalanga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“phalanga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“phalanga” in volume 10.1.2, column 1994, line 9 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

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