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pace

See also: Pace, PACE, pacé, pacę, pače, páce, and páče

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 19 November 2012

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas, Doublet of fathom; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /peɪs/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪs

NounEdit

pace (plural paces)

  1. Step.
    1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th c.]
    2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.[1] [from 14th c.]
      Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
      I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.
  2. Way of stepping.
    1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th c.]
      • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
        Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
    2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th c.]
  3. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
      For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
    • 1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN:
      The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles.
  4. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th c.]
  5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
    • 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:
      […] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.
    • 2006, "Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist, 9 November 2006:
      A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
    • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200:
      Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
  6. (obsolete) Passage, route.
    1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th–18th c.]
    2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th–17th c.]
    3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th–19th c.]
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AdjectiveEdit

pace (not comparable)

  1. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

VerbEdit

pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)

  1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
  2. To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. To measure by walking.
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TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

pace

  1. (formal) With all due respect to.
    • 1998: Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
      She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin
Usage notesEdit

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /peɪs/

NounEdit

pace (plural paces)

  1. Easter.
Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance, ¶ № 6)

AnagramsEdit

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

paco +‎ -e

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

pace

  1. peacefully

GalicianEdit

VerbEdit

pace

  1. third-person singular present indicative of pacer
  2. second-person singular imperative of pacer

InterlinguaEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pace (uncountable)

  1. peace

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pācem (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pace f (plural paci)

  1. peace

AdverbEdit

pace

  1. (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story
    pace e amen ― peace be with you and amen

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AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pāce f

  1. ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)

Middle EnglishEdit

VerbEdit

pace

  1. proceed; go forward
    • 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
      Er that I ferther in this tale pace, / Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree […]

PaliEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Alternative forms

VerbEdit

pace

  1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
  2. singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pace m anim

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

NounEdit

pace f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

NounEdit

pace f

  1. dative/locative singular of paka

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pācem, accusative of pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pace f (uncountable)

  1. peace

DeclensionEdit

declension of pace (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) pace pacea
genitive/dative (unei) păci păcii
vocative pace, paceo

AntonymsEdit

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See alsoEdit

SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

pace

  1. inflection of pacer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

YolaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English pees, from Anglo-Norman peis, from Latin pax.

NounEdit

pace

  1. peace
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 19:
      t'avance pace an livertie,
      to promote peace and liberty——

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114
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