lanceta

Attested since 1409. From Old French lancete.

• IPA^(key): [lanˈθetɐ]

lanceta f (plural lancetas)

1. lancet

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “llançeta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lanceta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lanceta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from French lancette.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: lan‧ce‧ta

lanceta f (plural lancetas)

1. lancet (pointed, two-edged surgical instrument)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: lan‧ce‧ta

lanceta

1. inflection of lancetar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /lanˈθeta/ [lãn̟ˈθe.t̪a] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /lanˈseta/ [lãnˈse.t̪a] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: lan‧ce‧ta

lanceta f (plural lancetas)

1. lancet
2. stinger

• “lanceta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “lanceta”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010