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ROMANIAN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

lanț.

chain

4 characters1 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

noun/lant͡s/

  1. chain

    neuter
Where this word comes from

Through Hungarian lánc from Middle High German lanne (“chain”) with a Slavic suffix *-ьcь, the Middle High German from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ла́нац (“chain”), Slovene lanec (“chain”), Macedonian and Bulgarian ланец (lanec, “golden or silver chain”), South and Western Russian ланцу́г (lancúg, “chain”), Polish łańcuch (“chain”), Czech and Slovak lano (“cable, rope”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.