Origin: Latin suffix -ance
Lake constance has 2 different meanings across 2 categories:
a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River
A lake on the Rhine located at the intersection of Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg), Switzerland (St. Gallen, Thurgau and Schaffhausen) and Austria (Vorarlberg); it consists of two parts, the Obersee in the east and northwest (Überlinger See) and the much smaller Untersee in the west, which are connected by the Seerhein; the lake's main tributary is the Alpine Rhine, which flows into the southeastern Obersee west of Bregenz and its outflow is the High Rhine, which begins in the western Untersee in Stein am Rhein.