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/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

dace (plural dace or daces)

1. The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 3, [1]

     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

Translations

Leuciscus leuciscus

• Bulgarian: клен (bg) m (klen)
• Dutch: serpeling
• Finnish: seipi (fi)
• French: vandoise (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
• Swedish: stäm (sv) c
• Yiddish: ווײַספֿיש‎ m (vaysfish)

Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae

• Russian: плотва́ (ru) f (plotvá)

Anagrams

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈda.t͡ʃe]

Adjective

dace f pl or n pl

1. nominative feminine plural of dac
2. accusative feminine plural of dac
3. nominative neuter plural of dac
4. accusative neuter plural of dac

Noun

dace f pl

1. plural of dacă