different between launce vs daunce

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /l??ns/, /l??ns/

Etymology 1

See lance.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

1. Obsolete form of lance.
2. sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae

Translations

Verb

launce (third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced)

1. Obsolete form of lance.

Etymology 2

From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

1. (obsolete) A balance.

Anagrams

• Lucena, auncel, auncle, cuneal, lacune, unlace

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

Alternative forms

• lance, launs, launse, lawnce, lawnse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lau?ns(?)/, /?lans(?)/

Noun

launce (plural launces)

1. A lance (long spear).
2. A javelin (throwing spear).
3. (rare) A lancer; someone armed with a lance.
4. (figuratively, rare) That which is long and pointed.

Related terms

• launcele
• launcen
• launcet
• launcegay

Descendants

• English: lance, launce
• Scots: lance

References

• “launce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

launce

1. Alternative form of launcen (“to push forwards”)

English

Noun

daunce (plural daunces)

1. Obsolete form of dance.

Verb

daunce (third-person singular simple present daunces, present participle dauncing, simple past and past participle daunced)

1. Obsolete form of dance.

Anagrams

• undeca-

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dance, danse, daunse

Etymology

Anglo-Norman daunce, variant of Old French dance.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /dau?nts?/, /dants?/
• IPA^(key): /dau?ns(?)/, /dans(?)/

Noun

daunce (plural daunces)

1. dance; dancing
2. dance song

Related terms

• dauncen

Descendants

• English: dance

References

• “daunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.

Old French

Noun

daunce f (oblique plural daunces, nominative singular daunce, nominative plural daunces)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dance