different between scye vs syce

English

Etymology

Unknown

Perhaps Old French sier (“to cut”), from Latin secare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: sigh, psi, xi, sai Si

Noun

scye (plural scyes)

1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.

Anagrams

• Sec'y, YECs, sec'y, syce

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”)