launcelot

noun Arthurian Romance.

1. Lancelot.

noun

1. Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur’s knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.

noun

1. (in Arthurian legend) one of the Knights of the Round Table; the lover of Queen Guinevere

masc. proper name, Old French, a double-diminutive of Frankish Lanzo, a hypocoristic name formed from some one of the Germanic names in Land-; cf. Old English Landbeorht “land-bright,” in Old French Lambert.