dace

See also Dace

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French dars, nominative form of dart (“dace”). For a similar loss of R compare bass.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /deɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

dace (plural dace or daces)

1. The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p28

     Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.

2. (US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.

Translations

Leuciscus leuciscus

• Bulgarian: клен (bg) (klen) m
• Dutch: serpeling (nl)
• Finnish: seipi (fi)
• French: vandoise (fr) f
• German: Weißfisch (de) m
• Greek: κέφαλος (el) (kefalos) m, ασπρόψαρο (el) (aspropsaro) n

• Russian: елецm (ru) (jel'éc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кленић (sh)

  Latin: klenić (sh) m

• Spanish: albur (es) m

Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae

• Russian: плотва (ru) (plotvá) f

Anagrams

• aced, cade, Cade, CEDA

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈda.tʃe]

Adjective

dace f pl and n pl

1. feminine pluralnominative form of dac
2. feminine pluralaccusative form of dac
3. neuter pluralnominative form of dac
4. neuter pluralaccusative form of dac

Noun

dace f pl

1. Plural form of dacă