alec

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See also: ALEC, Alec, and aleć

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).

Noun

alec (countable and uncountable, plural alecs)

  1. An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
  2. A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.

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References

  • New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary By Edy G. Schaffer, HarperCollins, 1996, page 446, "Fish...pickle ALEC" and "Fish...sauce ALEC"
  • An abridgement of Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin By Robert Ainsworth & Thomas Morell, Kimber & Conrad and Johnson & Warner, 1808, page 173, "herring, Alec pickled herring, Alec"
  • "Fish sauces", Fraser's Magazine, Volume 43 By Thomas Carlyle, J. Fraser, 1851, page 267, "he ancient alec corresponds to the modern anchovy... Garum, like alec, was sometimes the name given to a Greek fish (the species unknown) and sometimes the sauce formed from it."
  • "Herrings", The Westminster Review, Volumes 81-82, J.M. Mason, 1864, page 178, "The anchovy...was well known and appreciated by the ancients, at least in a pickled state. It was known to the Romans by alec or halec and aphya; it appears at one time to have been used in making the celebrated garum or fish sauce, of which the alec sauce was a thickened variety".
  • Prose halieutics: or, Ancient and modern fish tattle By David Badham, J. W. Parker and Son, 1854, page 70-72, "Alec, like garum, was at once the name of a fish and of a sauce made from it... That the fish called halecula, of which the alec was originally made, was the anchovy, seems probable manufactured alec out of crabs, oysters, shrimps, sea-urchins, and a variety of improper substitutes".

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Latin

Noun

ālēc n (genitive ālēcis); third declension

  1. Alternative spelling of allēc

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ālēc ālēca
Genitive ālēcis ālēcum
Dative ālēcī ālēcibus
Accusative ālēc ālēca
Ablative ālēce ālēcibus
Vocative ālēc ālēca

References

  • “alec”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “alec”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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