different between dace vs dade

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

dace (plural dace or daces)

1. The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift 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

Anagrams

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?da.t??e]

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 dac?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

dade (third-person singular simple present dades, present participle dading, simple past and past participle daded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.

   • No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles

     Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.

Anagrams

• Edda, adde, dead

Afrikaans

Noun

dade

1. plural of daad

Galician

Verb

dade

1. second-person plural imperative of dar

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

dade

1. third-person singular optative active of dad?ti (“to give”)

Romani

Noun

dade m

1. Dolenjski form of dad (“father”)

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??d?]
• Hyphenation: da?de

Noun

dade f

1. (colloquial) maternal grandmother

   Synonym: dapire