plaice

See also: Plaice

English

Hippoglossoides platessoides
American plaice

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English playce, plays, from Old French plaiz, from Late Latin platessa, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad”). See platy-, plat and flat.

Pronunciation

• enPR: plās, IPA^(key): /pleɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs
• Homophone: place

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

plaice (plural plaice or plaices)

1. Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
   1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.

      Synonyms: plaice-fluke, Dutch plaice

   2. Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
   3. Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
   4. Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
   5. Liopsetta glacialis (polar plaice)

Translations

Pleuronectes platessa

• Bulgarian: писия (bg) f (pisija)
• Catalan: capellà (ca) m
• Dutch: schol (nl) m
• Faroese: reyðsprøka f
• Finnish: punakampela (fi)
• French: carrelet (fr) m, plie (fr) f
• German: Scholle (de) f
• Greek: πλατέσσα f (platéssa)
• Hebrew: שטחנון אטלנטי m (shtakhnún atlánti)
• Hungarian: sima lepényhal
• Icelandic: koli m
• Irish: leathóg bhallach f, plás m
• Japanese: プレイス (pureisu)
• Norman: pliaie f (Jersey)
• Polish: gładzica (pl) f
• Russian: морска́я ка́мбала (ru) f (morskája kámbala)
• Spanish: platija f, solla f
• Swedish: rödspätta (sv), spätta (sv), rödspotta

Hippoglossoides platessoides

• Dutch: lange schar (nl) c
• Finnish: liejukampela
• French: flétan nain (fr) m
• Russian: ка́мбала-ёрш се́верная f (kámbala-jorš sévernaja)

Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus

• German: Alaska-Scholle f
• Russian: ка́мбала четырёхбуго́рчатая f (kámbala četyrjoxbugórčataja)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} schol (nl) m, (Flemish) ^{(please verify)} pladijs (nl)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} platessa f
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} cá bơn sao

Further reading

• plaice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pleuronectes platessa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pleuronectidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pleuronectidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• epical, piacle, plicae

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠlˠacɪ/

Noun

plaice f

1. genitive singular of plaic

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
plaice	phlaice	bplaice
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Noun

plaice

1. Alternative form of playce