pais

From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ/

pais (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, law, in set phrases as mentioned below) The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.

• A trial per pais is a trial by the country, i.e. by a jury. Matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury. Things which happen in pais happen 'in the country', rather than in a formally constituted court.

• AIPs, AISP, APIs, ASPI, IAPs, IASP, IPAs, PIAs, PISA, Pisa, SAPI, sipa

See the main lemma.

• IPA^(key): /pɑɪ̯s/

pais f (uncountable)

1. (archaic outside of set phrases) Alternative form of peis

• pais en vree

pais

1. inflection of paître:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• aspi

• IPA^(key): /ˈpajs/

pais m pl (plural only)

1. plural of pai
2. parents

• país

• “pai”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

• IPA^(key): /paˈis/

pais (plural paises)

1. country (nation)

• paìs

From Vulgar Latin *pagenses, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), from Latin pāgus (“village; district”). Compare Italian paese, Venetan pajès, Friulian paîs, Sicilian paisi, Romansch pajais, Catalan país, French pays, Portuguese país, Spanish país.

pais

1. country
2. village

• peis (Guernsey)

From Old French, from Latin pīsum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

• Audio (Jersey):

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pais m (plural pais)

1. (Jersey) pea

• pais rond

From Latin pācem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpai̯s/

pais oblique singular, f (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)

2. peace

• Middle French:
  • French: paix
• Anglo-Norman: peis
  • → Middle English: pees, pes, pese, pece
    • English: peace
    • Yola: pace
• Bourguignon: pois
• Walloon: påye
• → Dutch: peis
• → Middle English: pees, pes, pais

From Late Latin pāgēnsis, which is derived from Latin pāgus (“country”).

• païs (scholarly transcription)

• IPA^(key): /paˈis/

pais oblique singular, m (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)

2. country; nation

• The vast majority of facsimiles of manuscripts use pais to mean peace and païs (with a diaeresis on the i) to mean country. While this avoids ambiguity, this distinction is not found in the original manuscripts, which do not contain diaereses at all.

• Bourguignon: poiys
• Middle French: pays, païs, paÿs
  • French: pays
    • → Catalan: país
    • → Portuguese: país (see there for further descendants)
    • → Spanish: país

From Spanish país and Portuguese país and Kabuverdianu país.

pais

1. country

Inherited from Late Latin pāgēnsis. Compare Italian paese, French pays

• IPA^(key): /paˈiz/

pais m

1. country

   montagne dël me pais

   mountains of my country

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 817: “il paese” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophones: paz (Brazil), pás (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pais

pais m pl

1. parents
2. plural of pai

• Not to be confused with país.

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

pais m

1. (Puter, Vallader) weight

• (Rumantsch Grischun) paisa
• (Sursilvan, Surmiran) peisa
• (Sutsilvan) pesa

pais m

1. genitive singular of pas

pais

1. enemy

Borrowed from Latin pexa (“combed”).

pais f (plural peisau or peisiau)

1. petticoat, underskirt
2. (obsolete) tunic, jacket, doublet

   Synonyms: tiwnig, dwbled

• codi pais ar ôl piso (“to close the door after the horse has bolted”, literally “to lift one's petticoat after pissing”)
• crysbais (“waistcoat, jerkin”)

1. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pais”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies