pared

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɛəd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɛɹd/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /peːd/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /peəd/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /piəd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /peɹd/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
• Homophones: paired; peered (cheer–chair merger); purred (fair–fur merger)

pared

1. simple past and past participle of pare

• repad, padre, reap'd, raped, dreap, Padre, Preda, Pedra, drape, Praed

Inherited from Spanish pared (“wall”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾed/, [paˈɾed̪]
• Hyphenation: pa‧red

pared

1. wall

• pader (nonstandard)

Inherited from Old Spanish pared, from Late Latin parētem, from Latin parietem. Compare Portuguese parede.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾed/ [paˈɾeð̞]

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• Rhymes: -ed
• Syllabification: pa‧red

pared f (plural paredes)

1. wall, especially of a house or room

   Synonyms: muro; see also Thesaurus:pared

• Chavacano: pared
• → Bikol Central: paril
• → Cebuano: paril, pared
• → Hiligaynon: pader
• → Pangasinan: parel
• → Tagalog: pader

• “pared”, 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

• padre, preda

From Middle Welsh paret, paraet, parwyt, from Proto-Brythonic *paruɨd, from Late Latin parēs.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈparɛd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpa(ː)rɛd/

pared m (plural parwydydd)

1. wall

   Synonyms: mur, wal

The most commonly used word for “wall” in Welsh is wal. The word mur is used most often when referring to large walls such as the defensive walls of a city or Mur Mawr Tsieina (“the Great Wall of China”). The word pared refers to an internal partition wall whereas magwyr is a literary word for an external wall, little used now but preserved in such things as place and plant names.

• paladr y pared (“pellitory of the wall, spreading pellitory”)

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