adarce

From Latin adarcē, adarca, from Ancient Greek ἀδάρκη (adárkē).

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɑː(ɹ)si/

adarce (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A salty concretion found on reeds and grasses in marshy grounds. Soft and porous, it was formerly used for cleansing the skin and to treat leprosy. Nowadays it is unclear as to the exact nature of the substance.

• “adarce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• araced, arcade

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈdar.keː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈdar.t͡ʃe]

adarcē f (genitive adarcēs); first declension

1. alternative form of adarca

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).