Latin

Noun

phalanga f ‎(genitive phalangae); first declension

1. Wooden roller (for moving ships or military engines)
2. pole for carrying things

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Italian: falanga
• Romanian: părângă

References

• PHALANGA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• phalanga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers