# trance
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹɑːns/
** Rhymes: -ɑːns
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /tɹæns/
** Rhymes: -æns

#### Noun

trance (countable and uncountable, plural trances)
* (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
* (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:10:And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
** 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XXXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
* (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
* (uncountable, music) Short for trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

##### Alternative forms

* traunce (obsolete)

##### Derived terms

* consensus trance
* dissociative trance disorder
* dream trance
* possession trance disorder
* trance gate
* trance-like
* trancester

##### Descendants

* → French: trance

##### Translations

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#### Verb

trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)
* (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:And there I left him tranced.
* (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
** 2014, Geoffrey Benjamin, Temiar Religion, 1964-2012, page 64:The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]
** 1995, Sue Jennings, Kevin Jennings, Theatre, Ritual, and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars, page 111:What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]

##### Derived terms

* trance out

### Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses, which see for more). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

#### Verb

trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)
* (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
* (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
** 1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Trance the world o'er.
** 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza II, page 11:After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.
* (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

#### Noun

trance (plural trances)
* (obsolete outside British, dialectal) A tedious journey.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
** 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […]

### References

* ↑ Compare “trance, v.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914; “trounce, v.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915.
* “trance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtræns/, [ˈt̪ræns̠]
* IPA: /ˈtrɑnse/, [ˈt̪rɑ̝ns̠e̞]
* Rhymes: -æns

### Noun

trance
* trance (genre of electronic dance music)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of trance (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tranceni
tranceni
accusative
nom.
tranceni
tranceni
gen.
tranceni
genitive
tranceni
trancejeni tranceini $^{rare}$
partitive
tranceani
trancejani
inessive
trancessani
tranceissani
elative
trancestani
tranceistani
illative
tranceeni
tranceihini
adessive
trancellani
tranceillani
ablative
tranceltani
tranceiltani
allative
trancelleni
tranceilleni
essive
trancenani
tranceinani
translative
trancekseni
tranceikseni
abessive
trancettani
tranceittani
instructive
comitative
—tranceineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
trancesi
trancesi
accusative
nom.
trancesi
trancesi
gen.
trancesi
genitive
trancesi
trancejesi tranceisi $^{rare}$
partitive
tranceasi
trancejasi
inessive
trancessasi
tranceissasi
elative
trancestasi
tranceistasi
illative
tranceesi
tranceihisi
adessive
trancellasi
tranceillasi
ablative
tranceltasi
tranceiltasi
allative
trancellesi
tranceillesi
essive
trancenasi
tranceinasi
translative
tranceksesi
tranceiksesi
abessive
trancettasi
tranceittasi
instructive
comitative
—tranceinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
trancemme
trancemme
accusative
nom.
trancemme
trancemme
gen.
trancemme
genitive
trancemme
trancejemme tranceimme $^{rare}$
partitive
tranceamme
trancejamme
inessive
trancessamme
tranceissamme
elative
trancestamme
tranceistamme
illative
tranceemme
tranceihimme
adessive
trancellamme
tranceillamme
ablative
tranceltamme
tranceiltamme
allative
trancellemme
tranceillemme
essive
trancenamme
tranceinamme
translative
tranceksemme
tranceiksemme
abessive
trancettamme
tranceittamme
instructive
comitative
—tranceinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
trancenne
trancenne
accusative
nom.
trancenne
trancenne
gen.
trancenne
genitive
trancenne
trancejenne tranceinne $^{rare}$
partitive
tranceanne
trancejanne
inessive
trancessanne
tranceissanne
elative
trancestanne
tranceistanne
illative
tranceenne
tranceihinne
adessive
trancellanne
tranceillanne
ablative
tranceltanne
tranceiltanne
allative
trancellenne
tranceillenne
essive
trancenanne
tranceinanne
translative
tranceksenne
tranceiksenne
abessive
trancettanne
tranceittanne
instructive
comitative
—tranceinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
trancensa
trancensa
accusative
nom.
trancensa
trancensa
gen.
trancensa
genitive
trancensa
trancejensa tranceinsa $^{rare}$
partitive
tranceaan tranceansa
trancejaan trancejansa
inessive
trancessaan trancessansa
tranceissaan tranceissansa
elative
trancestaan trancestansa
tranceistaan tranceistansa
illative
tranceensa
tranceihinsa
adessive
trancellaan trancellansa
tranceillaan tranceillansa
ablative
tranceltaan tranceltansa
tranceiltaan tranceiltansa
allative
trancelleen trancellensa
tranceilleen tranceillensa
essive
trancenaan trancenansa
tranceinaan tranceinansa
translative
trancekseen tranceksensa
tranceikseen tranceiksensa
abessive
trancettaan trancettansa
tranceittaan tranceittansa
instructive
comitative
—tranceineen tranceinensa :

### Further reading

* “trance”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɑ̃s/
* Homophones: transe, transes
* Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

### Noun

trance f (uncountable)
* trance (music genre)

### Anagrams

* carnet, centra, cernât, créant, encrât, tancer

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrans/
* Rhymes: -ans

#### Noun

trance f (invariable)
* trance (music genre)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtran.t͡ʃe/
* Rhymes: -antʃe
* Hyphenation: tràn‧ce

#### Noun

trance
* plural of trancia

### References

* ↑ trance in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Trenca, c'entra, cantre, centra

## Middle English
### Noun

trance
* Alternative form of traunce

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

trance m (definite singular trancen, indefinite plural trancer, definite plural trancene)
* form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by transe

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

trance m (definite singular trancen, indefinite plural trancar, definite plural trancane)
* (pre-1984) alternative form of transe

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrans/
* Rhymes: -ans
* Syllabification: trance

### Noun

trance m inan
* trance music

#### Declension
### References

* Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, M. Bańko, PWN 2003, →ISBN

### Further reading

* trance in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾɐ̃.si/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾɐ̃.si/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾɐ̃.se/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾɐ̃.sɨ/
* Hyphenation: tran‧ce

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

#### Noun

trance m (uncountable)
* (music) trance (a genre of electronic dance music)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

trance
* inflection of trançar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

trance m (plural trances)
* Obsolete form of transe.

## Spanish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

#### Noun

trance m (plural trances)
* trance

##### Derived terms

* a todo trance

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

trance
* inflection of tranzar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “trance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10