lanx

Noun

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

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, (whence English ). Walde and Hoffmann, and Pokorny, suppose these words inherited from PIE and connected with words meaning "crooked", such as 🇨🇬, ; the root Pokorny assigns is, in updated reconstruction,. 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 languages.

Noun

 * 1) dish, platter, plate
 * 2) scalepan