lancer
English
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#LANCERCategory:English terms derived from French#LANCER lancier (“lancer”).
Noun
lancer (plural lancers)Category:English lemmas#LANCERCategory:English nouns#LANCERCategory:English countable nouns#LANCERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LANCERCategory:Pages with entries#LANCERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#LANCER
- (militaryCategory:en:Military#LANCER) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
- (entomologyCategory:en:Entomology#LANCER) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus PlastingiaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)#Plastingia.
- 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#LANCER
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Category:en:Skippers#LANCERFrench
Etymology
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#LANCERCategory:French terms derived from Old French#LANCER lancier, from Late LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Late Latin#LANCERCategory:French terms derived from Late Latin#LANCER lanceāre, from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#LANCERCategory:French terms derived from Latin#LANCER lancea. Compare Catalan llançar; Italian lanciare; Occitan and Portuguese lançar; Spanish lanzar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɑ̃.se/Category:French 2-syllable words#LANCERCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#LANCER
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Verb
lancerCategory:French lemmas#LANCERCategory:French verbs#LANCERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#LANCERCategory:Pages with entries#LANCERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#LANCER
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'.
| 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Noun
lancer m (plural lancers)Category:French lemmas#LANCERCategory:French nouns#LANCERCategory:French countable nouns#LANCERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#LANCERCategory:French masculine nouns#LANCERCategory:Pages with entries#LANCERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#LANCER
- a throw
- (baseballCategory:fr:Baseball#LANCER) a pitch
- (field hockey or ice hockeyCategory:fr:Field hockey#LANCERCategory:fr:Ice hockey#LANCER) a shot
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Further reading
- “lancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012