plaice

English

American plaice

Etymology

From Old French plaiz, from Late Latin platessa, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: plās, IPA^(key): /pleɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs
• Homophone: place

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

plaice (plural plaice or plaices)

1. Several similar marine flatfish of family Pleuronectidae of right-eye flounders:
   1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
   2. (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
   3. (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
   4. (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
   5. (polar plaice)

Translations

Pleuronectes platessa

• Catalan: capellà (ca) m
• Faroese: reyðsprøka f
• Finnish: punakampela (fi)
• French: carrelet (fr) m
• German: Scholle (de) f
• Greek: πλατέσσα f (platéssa)
• Icelandic: koli m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: leathóg bhallach f, plás m
• Japanese: プレイス (pureisu)
• Norman: pliaie f (Jersey)
• Russian: морска́я ка́мбала (ru) f (morskája kámbala)
• Spanish: platija f, solla f
• Swedish: rödspätta (sv), spätta (sv), rödspotta

Hippoglossoides platessoides

• Finnish: liejukampela
• French: flétan nain m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: ка́мбала-ёрш се́верная f (kámbala-jorš sévernaja)

Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus

• German: Alaska-Scholle f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: ка́мбала четырёхбуго́рчатая f (kámbala četyrjoxbugórčataja)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} schol (nl) m, (Flemish) ^{(please verify)} pladijs (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} plie (fr) f
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} סול (he) m (sol)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} platessa f
• Polish: ^{(please verify)} gładzica (pl) f
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} cá bơn sao

Further reading

• plaice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pleuronectes platessa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hippoglossoides platessoides on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pleuronectidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• epical, piacle, plicae

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠlˠacɪ/

Noun

plaice f

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of plaic

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
plaice	phlaice	bplaice
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.