An archaic or dialectal word for dice, the small cubes used in games of chance with numbered sides.
From Old French dé (singular) and dés (plural), from Latin datum meaning 'that which is given.' The spelling 'dyce' represents a Middle English variant that eventually standardized to 'dice,' with the word originally referring to something 'given' by chance or fate.
The word 'dice' itself comes from Latin datum (given), which makes sense—when you roll them, you're letting chance 'give' you a result, so people literally called them 'the givens.'
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