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pace

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pace"

English edit

WOTD – 19 November 2012

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

pace (plural paces)

  1. A 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. A 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, published 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 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist:
      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) A passage, a 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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Adjective edit

pace (not comparable)

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

Verb edit

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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Etymology 2 edit

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

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Preposition edit

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 notes edit

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

Translations edit

Etymology 3 edit

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /peɪs/

Noun edit

pace (plural paces)

  1. Easter.
Derived terms edit

References edit

  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)

Anagrams edit

Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

paco +‎ -e

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

pace

  1. peacefully

Galician edit

Verb edit

pace

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

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Noun edit

pace (uncountable)

  1. peace

Italian edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pace f (plural paci)

  1. peace

Adverb edit

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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Noun edit

pāce f

  1. ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)

Middle English edit

Verb edit

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 […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Alternative forms

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pace

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

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pace m animal

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

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pace f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

Noun edit

pace f

  1. dative/locative singular of paka

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

pace f (uncountable)

  1. peace
    Antonym: război

Declension edit

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

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Verb edit

pace

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

Yola edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pace

  1. peace
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 19-21:
      —t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, ee garde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.
      to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromising guardian of common right and public virtue.
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 21-23:
      Ye pace——yea, we mai zei, ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,
      The peace——yes, we may say the profound peace—which overspreads the land since your arrival,
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:
      wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.
      we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 114
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