Lancelot

Meaning

Proper Noun

• One of the knights of the round table, a lover of Guinevere.
• A male given name from Germanic languages.

Origin

• From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą ("land"), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.
• Cognate with Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).