different between paunce vs paune

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. (obsolete) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.

Related terms

• paunch

Etymology 2

See pansy.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. Obsolete form of pansy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]

Anagrams

• uncape

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pawnce, pauns, pauncs

Etymology

From Old French pance, from Latin panticem, accusative of pantex. Doublet of paunche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pau?ns(?)/, /?pans(?)/

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. paunce (piece of armour)

Descendants

• English: paunce

References

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

English

Noun

paune

1. Alternative form of pone (a kind of bread)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

paune (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. inflection of paun:
   1. vocative singular
   2. accusative plural