different between sice vs syce

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?s/

Etymology 1

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. Alternative spelling of sais

Etymology 2

Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six.

Alternative forms

• sise, size

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. (dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.
   • 1680, Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta (page 112)

     In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices […]

Related terms

• ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (saisu)

Translations

Anagrams

• ECIS, ECSI, EICs, ESCI, ICEs, Ices, ices

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?t?s?]

Adverb

sice

1. admittedly

   sice... ale - albeit... however

   Cesta byla sice hezká, ale p?íliš namáhavá

English

Noun

syce (plural syces)

1. Alternative spelling of sais.

Anagrams

• Sec'y, YECs, scye, sec'y

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (sukê).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sy?.ke?/, [?s?y?ke?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?si.t??e/, [?si?t???]

Noun

s?c? f (genitive s?c?s); first declension

1. A plant also called peplis
2. The resin of the tree called taeda
3. (medicine) A constantly running sore in the corner of the eye

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

References

• syce in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• syce in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• syce in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle English

Noun

syce

1. Alternative form of syse (“size, assize”)