phalanga
Latin
    
    
Etymology
    
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ, φᾰ́λᾰγγᾰ (phálanx, phálanga). Compare phalanx.
Noun
    
phalanga f (genitive phalangae); first declension
- wooden roller (for moving ships or military engines)
- carrying pole
- alternative form of phalanx (“battalion”)
Declension
    
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural | 
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | phalanga | phalangae | 
| Genitive | phalangae | phalangārum | 
| Dative | phalangae | phalangīs | 
| Accusative | phalangam | phalangās | 
| Ablative | phalangā | phalangīs | 
| Vocative | phalanga | phalangae | 
Descendants
    
- Romanian: părângă
- Italian: palanca (“board”)- → Alemannic German: Palangge
 
- Italian: paranco (“hoist”), palanco
- Franco-Provençal: planche, palanche, pilanche
- → French: palanche
 
- >? Old French: planche (“plank”), planke, planque
- Old Occitan:
- Sardinian: palanga
- West Iberian
- →? Albanian: pleng (“heavy object”)
- → Italian: falanga
- → Polish: falanga
References
    
- 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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