pais

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ/
• Homophone: pay

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): /pɑis/, [pɑɪ̯s]

pais f (uncountable)

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

• pais en vree

• IPA^(key): /pɛ/
• Hyphenation: pais

pais

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

• aspi

• IPA^(key): /ˈpajs/ [ˈpa̠js̺]
• Rhymes: -ajs
• Hyphenation: pais

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, 2012–2025

• IPA^(key): /paˈis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: pa‧is

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).

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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
    • → Galician: 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

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /paʔis/ [paˈʔis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: pa‧is

pais (Sulat Sūg spelling فَئِسْ)

1. skin; rind

From Middle Welsh peis, from Proto-Brythonic *pės, 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”)

• 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