Etymology
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From Middle French pacte, from Old French, from Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacisci (“to agree”).
Pronunciation
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pact (plural pacts)
- An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
write up a pact
New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members.
- (international law) An agreement between two or more nations
- (military) An alliance or coalition.
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Translations
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an agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant
- Albanian: pakt (sq) m
- Arabic: مُعَاهَدَة (ar) f (muʕāhada), مِيثَاق m (mīṯāq), حِلْف m (ḥilf)
- Armenian: պայմանագիր (hy) (paymanagir)
- Azerbaijani: müqavilə (az)
- Belarusian: пакт m (pakt)
- Bulgarian: пакт (bg) m (pakt)
- Catalan: pacte (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 協議/协议 (zh) (xiéyì), 協定/协定 (zh) (xiédìng), 條約/条约 (zh) (tiáoyuē)
- Czech: pakt (cs) m
- Danish: pagt c
- Dutch: pact (nl) n
- Estonian: pakt (et)
- Finnish: sopimus (fi)
- French: pacte (fr) m
- Galician: pauto m
- Georgian: პაქტი (ṗakṭi)
- German: Pakt (de) m, Vertrag (de) m
- Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía), σύμφωνο (el) n (sýmfono)
- Hindi: सन्धि (hi) f (sandhi)
- Hungarian: megállapodás (hu), egyezmény (hu)
- Italian: patto (it) m
- Japanese: 協定 (ja) (きょうてい, kyōtei), 条約 (ja) (じょうやく, jōyaku)
- Kazakh: пакт (pakt), келісім (kelısım)
- Khmer: កតិកាសញ្ញា (km) (kaʼtekaa saññaa)
- Korean: 협정(協定) (hyeopjeong), 조약(條約) (ko) (joyak), 계약(契約) (ko) (gyeyak)
- Kyrgyz: пакт (pakt)
- Latin: pactiō f, pactum n
- Latvian: pakts m
- Lithuanian: paktas (lt) m
- Macedonian: пакт m (pakt)
- Malay: pakatan (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pakt (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: pakt (no) f
- Odia: ଚୁକ୍ତି (or) (cukti)
- Persian: پیمان (fa) (peymân), معاهده (fa) (mo'âhade)
- Polish: układ (pl) m, pakt (pl) m
- Portuguese: pacto (pt) m
- Romanian: pact (ro) n
- Russian: пакт (ru) m (pakt), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: па̏кт m
- Roman: pȁkt (sh) m
- Slovak: pakt m
- Slovene: pakt m, dogovor m
- Spanish: pacto (es) m
- Swahili: agano (sw)
- Swedish: pakt (sv)
- Tajik: паймон (paymon), муоҳида (muohida), пакт (pakt), аҳднома (ahdnoma), шартнома (šartnoma)
- Thai: ข้อตกลง (kɔ̂ɔ-dtòk-long) (law)
- Turkish: antlaşma (tr), mukavele (tr)
- Ukrainian: пакт m (pakt)
- Uzbek: pakt (uz)
- Vietnamese: điều ước (條約), hiệp ước (vi) (協約)
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an agreement between two or more nations
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- Polish: pakt (pl) m, układ (pl) m
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- Thai: กติกาสัญญา (gà-dtì-gaa-sǎn-yaa)
- Turkish: antant (tr), pakt (tr)
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pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)
- (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129:When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.
Further reading
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- “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “pact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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