pance

English

Alternative forms

paunce

Noun

pance (plural pances)

(obsolete) Pansy (flower)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Capen, NEACP, pecan

Italian

Noun

pance f pl

plural of pancia

Old French

Alternative forms

panche (Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Latin panticem, accusative singular of pantex.

Noun

pance oblique singular, f (oblique plural pances, nominative singular pance, nominative plural pances)

stomach; belly

Descendants

Angevin: ponse
French: panse
Walloon: panse
→ Middle Dutch: pense
- Dutch: pens
  - Afrikaans: pens
→ Middle English: paunce
- English: paunce
→ Middle High German: panze
- German: Pansen
- Central Franconian:
  Hunsrik: Panz
  
  Ripuarian: Panz
- Luxembourgish: Panz

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