bice

English

Alternative forms

• bise

Etymology

From French bis, akin to Italian bigio (“light gray, tawny”). Doublet of beige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

bice (countable and uncountable, plural bices)

1. A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
2. A cobalt blue pigment.

Derived terms

• bice blue
• bice green

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈħe/,
• Hyphenation: bi‧ce

Verb

bicé

1. (transitive) be able to
2. (transitive) be prepared to

Conjugation

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bice”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bicce

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲiɡʲe/

Adjective

bice

1. genitive singular feminine of bec

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