Where does “paunce” come from?

paunce (Middle English) comes from Old French pance, from Latin pantex — belly, paunch, guts.

paunce (Middle English): paunce piece of armour

Definitions

  1. paunce piece of armour

Ancestry of “paunce”, step by step

paunce traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French pance

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpancestomach; belly
2Latinpantexbelly, paunch, guts

via Middle French pans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchpans—

Words derived from “paunce”

Every word from Latin pantex →Every word from Old French pance →