pais
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pais (uncountable)
- (obsolete, law, in set phrases as mentioned below) The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
Usage notes edit
- A trial per pais is a trial by the country, i.e. by a jury. Matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury. Things which happen in pais happen 'in the country', rather than in a formally constituted court.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pais”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
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Verb edit
pais
- inflection of paître:
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Noun edit
pais m pl (plural only)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pai” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pais (plural paises)
- country (nation)
Istriot edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *pagenses, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), from Latin pāgus (“village; district”). Compare Italian paese, Venetian pajès, Friulian paîs, Sicilian paisi, Romansch pajais, Catalan país, French pays, Portuguese país, Spanish país.
Noun edit
pais
Norman edit
Alternative forms edit
- peis (Guernsey)
Etymology edit
From Old French, from Latin pīsum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun edit
pais m (plural pais)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- pais au fou (“bean crock”)
- pais brantcheur (“runner bean”)
- pais d'mai (“French bean”)
- pais lupîn (“lupin”)
- pais-flieur (“sweet pea”)
- pouque à pais (“beanbag”)
Old French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pais oblique singular, f (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Late Latin pāgēnsis, which is derived from Latin pāgus (“country”).
Alternative forms edit
- païs (scholarly transcription)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pais oblique singular, m (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)
Usage notes edit
- The vast majority of facsimiles of manuscripts use pais to mean peace and païs (with a diaeresis on the i) to mean country. While this avoids ambiguity this distinction is not found in the original manuscripts which do not contain diaereses at all.
Descendants edit
Papiamentu edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish país and Portuguese país and Kabuverdianu país.
Noun edit
pais
Piedmontese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Late Latin pāgēnsis. Compare Italian paese, French pays
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pais m
- country
- montagne dël me pais
- mountains of my country
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 817: “il paese” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
- Homophones: paz (Brazil), pás (Brazil)
- Hyphenation: pais
Noun edit
pais m pl
Usage notes edit
- Not to be confused with país.
Romansch edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.
Noun edit
pais m
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Scottish Gaelic edit
Noun edit
pais m
Taroko edit
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pais