pance

English

Alternative forms

• paunce

Noun

pance (plural pances)

1. (obsolete) Pansy (flower)

References

• “pance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Capen, NEACP, pecan

Italian

Noun

pance f pl

1. plural of pancia

Old French

Alternative forms

• panche (Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Latin panticem, accusative singular of pantex.

Noun

pance oblique singular, f (oblique plural pances, nominative singular pance, nominative plural pances)

1. stomach; belly

Descendants

• Angevin: ponse
• French: panse
• Walloon: panse
• → Middle Dutch: pense
  • Dutch: pens
    • Afrikaans: pens
• → Middle English: paunce
  • English: paunce
• → Middle High German: panze
  • German: Pansen
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Panz

    Ripuarian: Panz

  • Luxembourgish: Panz