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English word launch comes from Latin lanceare, Latin lanceo|lancere, Latin lancea, Latin -one(-onem|m), and later French lancer (To start, to launch. To throw (baseball) a pitch. A throw.)
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lanceare (Latin)
lanceo|lancere (Latin)
lancea (Latin)
The Roman auxiliaries' short javelin; a light spear or lance.
-one(-onem|m) (Latin)
lance (French)
(military) a soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. A hose. A spear, lance.
lanceo (Latin)
(Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin, intransitive) I wield or handle a lance. (Medieval Latin, transitive, construed with accusative of object) I launch or shoot (especially something akin to a javelin or spear). (Medieval Latin, transitive, construed with accusative of person) I pierce (someone) through with a pike, sword, dagger, vel sim.
lanceāre (Late Latin)
lancer (French)
To start, to launch. To throw (baseball) a pitch. A throw.
lancier (Old French)
launchen (Middle English)
launch (English)
(intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.. (transitive) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.. (transitive) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.. (transitive) To throw, as a lance or dart; [...]