different between quince vs bawl

English

Etymology

From Middle English quince, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cot?neum, from Latin m?lum cot?neum, a variant of m?lum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek ???????????? (m?lokud?nion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

quince (plural quinces)

1. The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
2. The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
3. A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.

Derived terms

• Japan quince
• quince curculio

Translations

Anagrams

• Cinque, cinque

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin qu?ndecim.

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

Derived terms

• quincenu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese quinze, from Latin qu?ndecim.

Pronunciation

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

Middle English

Noun

quince

1. Alternative form of quynce (“quince”)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• quinze (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Spanish quinze, quindze, from Latin qu?ndecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?kin?e/, [?k?n?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?kinse/, [?k?n.se]

Numeral

quince

1. fifteen

Derived terms

Related terms

• cinco
• diez

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: kinse
• ? Tagalog: kinse

Further reading

• “quince” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English bawlen, from Old Norse baula (“to low”) and/or Medieval Latin baul? (“to bark”), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bau- (“to bark”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellan?, *ballijan?, *buljan? (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Faroese belja (“to low”), Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [b???]
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: ball

Verb

bawl (third-person singular simple present bawls, present participle bawling, simple past and past participle bawled)

1. (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
2. (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 5:

     Why did you bawl out just as I was aiming? Who can aim with a fellow bawling in his ear? I've lost the birds through it.

Derived terms

• bawler

Translations

Noun

bawl (plural bawls)

1. A loud, intense shouting or wailing.

Translations

Anagrams

• LBWA

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l?/

Adjective

bawl

1. blunt

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41