Pruce

• Prus, Pruse, Pruys, Pruyse, Pruyss, Pruysse, sprewse, Spruce

Borrowed from Middle French Prusse or its etymon Middle Low German Prǖssen, Prǖsen, from a Baltic (Old Prussian, or perhaps Lithuanian or Latvian) autonym. For more, see Prussia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpriu̯s(ə)/, /ˈspriu̯s(ə)/

Pruce

1. (chiefly historical) Prussia (a geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe)
3. Prussia, State of the Teutonic Order (a medieval theocracy in Northeast Europe, located along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea)

• English: Pruce (obsolete); pruce, spruce

• “Prū̆s(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “Sprūce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.