dace

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English

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Etymology

Old variant of earlier darse, from Late Middle English darse (also as dace already), from Old French darz, oblique plural form of dart (“spear; javelin”).
For a similar loss of r, compare bass, while for the pronunciation with /eɪ/, see scarce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

dace (plural dace or daces)

1. A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎, Part One, Chapter 3:

     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.

Synonyms

• dare, dart

Derived terms

• dacelike
• honed dace
• Japanese dace (Pseudaspius hakonensis)
• sea dace

Translations

Leuciscus leuciscus

Bulgarian: клен (bg) m (klen) Czech: jelec (cs) m Dutch: serpeling (nl) Finnish: seipi (fi) French: vandoise (fr) f, vandoise commune (fr) f German: Hasel (de) m Greek: κέφαλος (el) m (kéfalos), ασπρόψαρο (el) n (asprópsaro) Hungarian: nyúldomolykó Ket: ӄаӄ (qaq) Polish: jelec (pl) m Portuguese: pardelha (pt) f Russian: еле́ц (ru) m (jeléc) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кленић Latin: klenić m Spanish: albur (es) m, leucisco Swedish: stäm (sv) c Yiddish: ווײַספֿיש m (vaysfish)

Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae

Russian: плотва́ (ru) f (plotvá)

Anagrams

• aced, deca-, DECA, CEDA, cade, Cade, -cade, deca, ecad

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈda.t͡ʃe]

Adjective

dace f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of dac

Noun

dace f pl

1. plural of dacă