paries

Borrowed from Latin pariēs (“wall of a house or room”). Compare French paroi (“wall”), Italian parete (“wall”), Portuguese parede (“wall”) Spanish pared (“wall”) and Romanian perete (“wall”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹi.iːz/, /ˈpɛəɹi.iːz/, /ˈpɛəɹiːz/

paries (plural parietes)

1. (anatomy, botany) The wall of any cavity or organ.
2. (zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

• parietal

• Persia, Pearis, aspire, spirea, paires, Arispe, perais, Parise, Paresi, praise

paries

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of parir

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paries

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of parier

• aspire, aspiré, paires, repais

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.ri.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ri.es]

From a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Old Norse sparri (“wall”), Old High German sparro, Russian у-пере́ть (u-perétʹ, “to support, to prop up”), and Old East Slavic пьрть (pĭrtĭ).^[1][2]

• parēs (late)

pariēs m (genitive parietis); third declension

1. the wall of a house or room

   Hypernym: mūrus

Third-declension noun.

• parietālis
• parietārius
• parietīnus

(See also parēs.)

• → English: paries

• “paries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "paries", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• paries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere
    
  • within four walls: intra parietes (Brut. 8. 32)
    
• “paries”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “paries”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pariēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of pariō