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Is lanx a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lanx is a Scrabble US word. The word lanx is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

L1A1N1X8

Is lanx a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lanx is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

L1A1N1X8

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4-letter words (1 found)

LANX,

3-letter words (1 found)

LAX,

2-letter words (5 found)

AL,AN,AX,LA,NA,

You can make 7 words from lanx according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lanx

lanx alnx lnax nlax anlx nalx laxn alxn lxan xlan axln xaln lnxa nlxa lxna xlna nxla xnla anxl naxl axnl xanl nxal xnal

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Definitions and meaning of lanx

lanx

Etymology

Latin lanx

Noun

lanx (plural lances)

  1. (historical) A platter or dish for serving food in Ancient Rome.

Latin

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, *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.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /lanks/, [ɫ̪äŋks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lanks/, [läŋks]

Noun

lanx f (genitive lancis); third declension

  1. dish, platter, plate
  2. scalepan

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • aequilanx
  • bilanx

Descendants

  • Italian: lance

References

  • “lanx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lanx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lanx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lanx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “lanx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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