dace

See also: Dace

English

common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus

Etymology

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

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^[1], 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

• honed dace
• Japanese dace
• 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 n (asprópsaro)
• Hungarian: nyúldomolykó
• 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