pince

See also: pincé and pincë

French

Etymology

From pincer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃s/

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Noun

pince f (plural pinces)

1. pincer, claw
2. pliers
3. tongs
4. crowbar

Derived terms

• pince à épiler
• pincette

Descendants

• Rade: pen
• Vietnamese: panh

Verb

pince

1. inflection of pincer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pince”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language. Compare Slovak pivnica. From Proto-Slavic *pivo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpint͡sɛ]
• Hyphenation: pin‧ce

Noun

pince (plural pincék)

1. basement (a floor of a building below ground level)
2. cellar (an enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter)
3. cellar (a wine collection)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pince	pincék
accusative	pincét	pincéket
dative	pincének	pincéknek
instrumental	pincével	pincékkel
causal-final	pincéért	pincékért
translative	pincévé	pincékké
terminative	pincéig	pincékig
essive-formal	pinceként	pincékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pincében	pincékben
superessive	pincén	pincéken
adessive	pincénél	pincéknél
illative	pincébe	pincékbe
sublative	pincére	pincékre
allative	pincéhez	pincékhez
elative	pincéből	pincékből
delative	pincéről	pincékről
ablative	pincétől	pincéktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	pincéé	pincéké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pincééi	pincékéi

Possessive forms of pince
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pincém	pincéim
2nd person sing.	pincéd	pincéid
3rd person sing.	pincéje	pincéi
1st person plural	pincénk	pincéink
2nd person plural	pincétek	pincéitek
3rd person plural	pincéjük	pincéik

Derived terms

• pincéjű
• pincés
• pincétlen

 

Compound words

• borpince
• légópince
• pinceajtó
• pincebörtön
• pincekulcs
• pincelépcső
• pinceraktár
• pinceszag
• pinceszoba

 

Further reading

• pince in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲɪɲcɪ/

Adjective

pince

1. inflection of pinc:
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
   3. comparative degree

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pince	phince	bpince
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Spanish

Verb

pince

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pinzar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pinzar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pinzar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pinzar.