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lancĕŏla (lancĭŏla), ae, f. dim. [lancea], a small lance, Capitol. Maxim. jun. 4; App. M. 8, p. 214, 7.

Lancĭa, ae, f.,

  1. I. a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, now Castro, Flor. 4, 12; cf. Mann. Hispan. p. 358.
    Hence, Lancĭen-ses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Lancia, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 28.
  2. II. A city of the same name in Lusitania, whose inhabitants were called Lancĭenses, Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 118; cf. Mann. Hispan. p. 335.

lancĭārĭus (lancĕār-), ĭi, m. [lancea], a lancer (post-class.), Amm. 21, 13, 16; Cassiod. Hist. 6, 35; Vulg. Act. 23, 23.

lancĭcŭla, ae, f. dim. [lanx], a small dish or platter (post-class.), Arn. 2, 59.

* lancĭnātor, ōris, m. [lancino], one that tears to pieces, a render, lacerater: gregum, Prud. στεφ. 10, 1057.

lancĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cf. lacer], to tear to pieces, to rend, mangle, lacerate (poet. and post-Aug.).

  1. I. Lit.: alium ira in cubili suo confoditalium intra leges celebrisque spectaculum fori lancinavit, Sen. de Ira, 1, 2, 2: morsu aliquem, Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13: conjux membratim lancinatur, Arn. 1, 20: tot sinus Pelopennesi oram lancinant, indent, cut up, Plin. 4, 5, 9, § 19.
  2. II. Trop., to destroy, consume, waste: Cat. 29, 18: vitam (al. lanciniare), to fritter away, waste, Sen. Ep. 32, 2: credulitatem facetiis jocularibus, Arn. 2, 47.

lancĭŏla, v. lanceola.