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alec
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).
Noun
alec (countable and uncountable, plural alecs)
- An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
- A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
Derived terms
- alec sauce
- alecy
See also
- smart alec, smart aleck
References
- New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary By Edy G. Schaffer, HarperCollins, 1996, page 446, "Fish...pickle ALEC" and "Fish...sauce ALEC"
- An abridgement of Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin By Robert Ainsworth & Thomas Morell, Kimber & Conrad and Johnson & Warner, 1808, page 173, "herring, Alec [...] pickled herring, Alec"
- "Fish sauces", Fraser's Magazine, Volume 43 By Thomas Carlyle, J. Fraser, 1851, page 267, "[T]he ancient alec corresponds to the modern anchovy... Garum, like alec, was sometimes the name given to a Greek fish (the species unknown) and sometimes the sauce formed from it." [Italics added]
- "Herrings", The Westminster Review, Volumes 81-82, J.M. Mason, 1864, page 178, "The anchovy...was well known and appreciated by the ancients, at least in a pickled state. It was known to the Romans by alec or halec and aphya; it appears at one time to have been used in making the celebrated garum or fish sauce, of which the alec sauce was a thickened variety". [Italics retained from original]
- Prose halieutics: or, Ancient and modern fish tattle By David Badham, J. W. Parker and Son, 1854, page 70-72, "Alec, like garum, was at once the name of a fish and of a sauce made from it... That the fish called halecula, of which the alec [sauce] was originally made, was the anchovy, seems probable [...but some] manufactured alec out of crabs, oysters, shrimps, sea-urchins, and a variety of improper substitutes".
Anagrams
- Acle, acle, cale, lace
Latin
Noun
?l?c n (genitive ?l?cis); third declension
- Alternative spelling of all?c
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- alec in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alec in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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plec
English
Noun
plec (plural plecs)
- pleco (tropical fish)
Anagrams
- CLEP, Pelc
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- plecu
Etymology
From Latin plic?. Compare Romanian pleca, plec.
Verb
plec (third-person singular indicative pleacã, past participle plicatã)
- I leave, depart.
Related terms
- plicari/plicare
- plicat
- aplec
See also
- afug, fug
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?pl?k/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?pl?k/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?plek/
Noun
plec m (plural plecs)
- fold
- pleat, crease
- Synonym: replec
- A sheet of paper.
- A sealed document.
- (printing) quire, gathering
Further reading
- “plec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Romanian
Verb
plec
- first-person singular present indicative of pleca
- first-person singular present subjunctive of pleca
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- what plecos eat algae
- what pleco fish eat
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