pays

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /peɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

pays

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pay

pays

1. plural of pay

• APYs, AsPy, aspy, pyas, spay, yaps

Inherited from Middle French pays, from Old French pais, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).

See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país. Cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.i/ ~ /pe.i/, /pɛ.ji/, /pe.ji/

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pays m (plural pays)

1. land, country, region, nation
2. (politics, geography) country

• → Catalan: país
• → Galician: país
• → Portuguese: país (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: país

• “pays”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• païs, paÿs

From Old French pais.

pays m (plural pays)

1. land; country; region

• French: pays
  • → Catalan: país
  • → Galician: país
  • → Portuguese: país (see there for further descendants)
  • → Spanish: país

From Old French païs, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).

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pays m (plural pays)

1. (Jersey) country

• Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)

pays m (plural payses)

1. obsolete spelling of país

pays m

1. obsolete spelling of pais

• IPA^(key): /ˈpais/ [ˈpai̯s]
• Rhymes: -ais
• Syllabification: pays

pays m pl

1. plural of pay