pay
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native Old English ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.
VerbEdit
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)
- (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- he paid him to clean the place up
- he paid her off the books and in kind where possible
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
- 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
- Admiral Hackett: You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay him to charge the enemy. But you can't pay him to believe.
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
- (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- she offered to pay the bill
- he has paid his debt to society
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:21:
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- to pay attention
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- not paying me a welcome
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- crime doesn’t pay
- it will pay to wait
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:
- Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of pay
| infinitive | (to) pay | ||
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| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | pay | paid, payed† | |
| 2nd-person singular | pay, payest† | paid, paidest†, paidst†, payed†, payedst† | |
| 3rd-person singular | pays, payeth† | paid, payed† | |
| plural | pay | ||
| subjunctive | pay | paid, payed† | |
| imperative | pay | — | |
| participles | paying | paid, payed† | |
HypernymsEdit
- (to give money): compensate
HyponymsEdit
Hyponyms of pay (to give money)
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from pay (verb)
Related termsEdit
Terms related to pay (verb)
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to give money in exchange for goods or services
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to discharge by giving or doing what is due or required
to be profitable for
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to give (e.g. attention)
to be profitable
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intransitive: to discharge an obligation or debt
intransitive: to suffer consequences
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NounEdit
pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)
- Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
- Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
money given in return for work
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AdjectiveEdit
pay (not comparable)
- Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
- pay toilet
- Pertaining to or requiring payment.
TranslationsEdit
operable or accessible on deposit of coins
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pertaining to or requiring payment
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Etymology 2Edit
Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to pitch”).
VerbEdit
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed)
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
TranslationsEdit
to cover with a waterproof substance
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Further readingEdit
- pay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- pay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- pay at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
AnguthimriEdit
NounEdit
pay
ReferencesEdit
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187
AzerbaijaniEdit
| Cyrillic | пај | |
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| Perso-Arabic | پای | |
EtymologyEdit
According to Nişanyan, from Persian پای (pây, “foot”), with the sense ”share” originating from the Persian expression borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish بای برابر (pây-berâber, “equally, to the same proportion”, literally “equal foot”). The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth century Book of Dede Korkut.
The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such as Kirgiz and Yakut пай (pay, “share”) are, according to Nişanyan, a borrowing from the Ottoman Turkish پای, via Russian пай (paj).
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of pay | ||||||||
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| singular | plural | |||||||
| nominative | pay |
paylar | ||||||
| definite accusative | payı |
payları | ||||||
| dative | paya |
paylara | ||||||
| locative | payda |
paylarda | ||||||
| ablative | paydan |
paylardan | ||||||
| definite genitive | payın |
payların | ||||||
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English pi, Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: pay
NounEdit
pay
- the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
- (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π
Epigraphic MayanEdit
VerbEdit
pay
- to guide
JakaltekEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Mayan *pahar.
NounEdit
pay
ReferencesEdit
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 65; 39
KalashaEdit
NounEdit
pay
- A goat
KomoEdit
NounEdit
pay
ReferencesEdit
- RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.
Limos KalingaEdit
AdverbEdit
pay
Northern KurdishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pay ?
Old PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From padre, from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pay m
- (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)
- Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua
- Your dad [is] on the street / before his door
- Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)
SynonymsEdit
Coordinate termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
pay m (plural pays)
- Obsolete spelling of pai
- 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Reſẽnde que trata da vida […] do christianiſſimo; muito alto ⁊ muyto poderoſo principe el Rey dõ João o ſegundo deſte nome, page 1:
- De ſeu pay ⁊ ſua mãy ⁊ ſeu nacimento.
- About his father and his mother and his birth.
- 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Reſẽnde que trata da vida […] do christianiſſimo; muito alto ⁊ muyto poderoſo principe el Rey dõ João o ſegundo deſte nome, page 1:
QuechuaEdit
PronounEdit
pay
See alsoEdit
Sierra Negra NahuatlEdit
NounEdit
pay
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pay m (plural pays)
Derived termsEdit
- pay de queso (“cheesecake”) (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala)
- pay de coco (“coconut cream pie”)
- pay de leche condensada (“condensed milk cake”)
TausugEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay.
NounEdit
pāy
- rice (with husk)
Derived termsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)
DeclensionEdit
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| Dative | paya | paylara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locative | payda | paylarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- pay etmek (“to distribute”)
- paylaşmak (“to divide among one-selves”)
- paylaşık (“shared”)
DescendantsEdit
- Armenian: փայ (pʿay)
ReferencesEdit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük