pays

See also: Pays and paÿs

English edit

Pronunciation edit

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /peɪz/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪz

Verb edit

pays

third-person singular simple present indicative of pay

Noun edit

pays

plural of pay

Anagrams edit

APYs, AsPy, aspy, pyas, spay, yaps

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French païs, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).

See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país. Cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /pɛ.i/, /pe.i/, /pɛ.ji/, /pe.ji/
audio (file)

Noun edit

pays m (plural pays)

land, country, region, nation
(politics, geography) country

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

→ Portuguese: país
→ Spanish: país
→ Catalan: país

Further reading edit

“pays”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French edit

Alternative forms edit

païs
paÿs

Etymology edit

From Old French païs.

Noun edit

pays m (plural pays)

land; country; region

Descendants edit

French: pays

Norman edit

Etymology edit

From Old French païs, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).

Pronunciation edit

Audio (Jersey) (file)

Noun edit

pays m (plural pays)

(Jersey) country

Derived terms edit

Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)

Portuguese edit

Noun edit

pays m (plural payses)

Obsolete spelling of país

Noun edit

pays m

Obsolete spelling of pais

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈpais/ [ˈpai̯s]
Rhymes: -ais
Syllabification: pays

Noun edit

pays m pl

plural of pay

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