país

país m (plural países)

1. country

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈis]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ís

Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagēnsis, from Latin pāgus (“country”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagès. See related terms.

país m (plural països)

1. country, land (a set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits)

   País Basc ― Basque Country

2. country (the territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

país

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of pair

• “país”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “país”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “país” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “país” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagensis, from Latin pāgus (“country”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /paˈis/ [paˈis̺]
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: pa‧ís

país m (plural países)

1. country

   Synonym: terra

   Cada país seu uso, cada roca seu fuso. (proverb)

   when in Rome, do as the Romans do

   (literally, “Each country has its usage, each distaff its spindle.”)

   • 1978, Emilio González López, Grandeza e decadencia do reino de Galicia, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 88:

     Na segunda fase, no século IX, cambea radicalmente a situación verbo das relacións entre Galicia e a corte asturiana, na que o noso país ten xa unha influencia decisiva.

     In the second phase, during the 9th century, the situation changes radically in regards to the relations of Galicia and the Asturian Court, in which our country has already a decisive influence

2. countryside

• paisano
• Países Baixos
• viño do país

• pais

• “país”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “país”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “país”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “país”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese país.

país

1. country

• païs

Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagensis, from Latin pāgus (“country”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

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país m (plural païses)

1. country

• paiz (pre-standardization spelling)
• pays (obsolete)

Borrowed from French pays,^[1][2] from Medieval Latin pagēnsis, from Latin pāgus (“country”). Doublet of pago.

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɐˈis/

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ís

país m (plural países)

2. country; nation (a sovereign polity)

   Synonym: nação

   O Uruguai foi uma colónia, depois uma província, e hoje é um país.

   Uruguay was a colony, then a province, and today it's a country.

4. country; land (a region inhabited by a particular people or characterised by a certain feature)

   Synonyms: terra, região

   Estamos em país montanhoso. ― We are in a mountainous land.

   País Basco ― Basque Country

   Alice no País das Maravilhas. ― Alice in Wonderland.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:país.

• Kabuverdianu: país
• Papiamentu: pais

Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagēnsis, from Latin pāgus (“country”). Compare Sicilian pajisi, Italian paese.

• IPA^(key): /paˈis/ [paˈis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: pa‧ís

país m (plural países)

1. country (the territory of a nation)
   • 2025 June 20, Randi Kaye and David von Blohn, “El ICE renueva acuerdo con el centro de detención que, según la agencia, no cumplía las normas”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Michael Wallace, deportado a Jamaica, su país de origen, padece epilepsia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. country, land (a set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits)

   País Vasco ― Basque Country

   El País de las Maravillas ― Wonderland

• “país”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024