pace

See also: Pace, PACE, pacé, pače, and páče

English

WOTD – 19 November 2012

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. (obsolete) Passage, route.
   1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
   2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th-17th century]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

        But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].

   3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]
2. Step.
   1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
   2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th century]

      Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.

      I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.

3. Way of stepping.
   1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
      • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

        Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.

   2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
4. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:

     For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.

5. (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th century]
6. A group of donkeys. The collective noun for donkeys.
   • 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:

     […] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.

   • 2006, "Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist, 9 November 2006:

     A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

   • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press (2007), →ISBN, page 200:

     Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• pace car
• pacemaker

• pacer
• pace setter
• put through its paces

Translations

step: step

• Armenian: քայլ (hy) (kʻayl)
• Bashkir: аҙым (aźım)
• Belarusian: крок m (krok)
• Catalan: pas (ca) m
• Chamicuro: tepane
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步伐 (zh) (bùfá), 步幅 (bùfú), 腳步／脚步 (zh) (jiǎobù), 脚步 (zh) (jiǎobù)

• Czech: krok (cs)
• Esperanto: paŝo
• Finnish: askel (fi)
• French: pas (fr) m
• German: Schritt (de) m
• Greek: βήμα (el) n (víma)
• Hungarian: lépés (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 歩幅 (ja) (ほはば, hohaba)
• Latin: passus (la), gradus (la)
• Latvian: solis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: steg (no) n, skritt (no) n

  Nynorsk: steg n

• Polish: krok (pl) m
• Portuguese: passo (pt) m
• Romanian: pas (ro)
• Russian: шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Slovak: krok m
• Slovene: korak m
• Spanish: paso (es) m
• Swahili: mwendo (sw)
• Ukrainian: крок (uk) m (krok)

step: distance covered

• Catalan: passa (ca) f
• Finnish: askel (fi) (one), askelpari (two), askelmitta
• French: pas (fr) m
• Maori: whetoko
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Slovene: korak m
• Spanish: paso (es) m

way of stepping: rate or style of how someone moves with their feet

• Catalan: pas (ca) m
• Finnish: liike (fi), jalkatyö
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: по́ступь (ru) f (póstupʹ), похо́дка (ru) f (poxódka), шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Ukrainian: хода (xoda), крок (uk) (krok)

way of stepping: gait of a horse

• Catalan: pas (ca) m
• Finnish: passi (fi), askellaji
• German: Passgang (de) m, Pass (de) m
• Japanese: 側対歩 (そくたいほ, sokutaiho), だく足 (だくあし, dakuashi), アンブル (anburu)
• Latvian: gaita f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: pass (no)
• Russian: и́ноходь (ru) f (ínoxodʹ), аллю́р (ru) m (alljúr)
• Spanish: trote (es) m (slow), galope (es) m (speedy)
• Ukrainian: одно́хідь f (odnóxidʹ)

speed

• Belarusian: тэмп m (temp)
• Catalan: pas (ca) m, ritme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 速度 (zh) (sùdù)

• Czech: tempo (cs) n
• Finnish: tahti (fi)
• French: rythme (fr) m, train (fr) m, tempo (fr) m
• German: Tempo (de) n, Geschwindigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ρυθμός (el) m (rythmós)
• Japanese: 歩調 (ja) (ほちょう, hochō), 速度 (ja) (そくど, sokudo), ペース (ja) (ぺーす, pēsu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takt m or f

  Nynorsk: takt m or f

• Polish: tempo (pl) n
• Portuguese: passo (pt) m, ritmo (pt)
• Romanian: ritm (ro) n, pas (ro) m, tempo (ro) n
• Russian: темп (ru) m (tɛmp), ско́рость (ru) f (skórostʹ)
• Slovene: hitrost (sl) f
• Spanish: paso (es) m, ritmo (es) m
• Ukrainian: темп m (temp)

cricket: measure of pitch hardness

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

collective noun for donkeys

• Finnish: lauma (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} tempo (nl) n
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} paso m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} passo (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 걸음 (ko) (georeum)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 步幅 (bùfú)

Adjective

pace (not comparable)

1. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

Verb

1. Walk to and fro in a small space.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.

2. Set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Measure by walking.

Derived terms

• (set the speed in a race): pacemaker

Translations

to walk to and fro

• Finnish: astella edestakaisin
• French: arpenter (fr), faire les cent pas (fr)
• Hebrew: פָּסַע (he) (pasá')
• Maori: toihā, whetoko
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: chodzić tam i z powrotem
• Romanian: umbla (ro)
• Russian: шага́ть (ru) (šagátʹ) (туда́-сюда́ OR взад и вперёд), расха́живать (ru) (rasxáživatʹ), проха́живаться (ru) (proxáživatʹsja)
• Swahili: mwendo (sw)

to set a race’s speed

• Finnish: määrätä tahti
• Japanese: 速度を保つ (そくどをたもつ, sokudo o tamotsu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: задава́ть темп (zadavátʹ temp)
• Swahili: mwendo (sw)

to measure by walking

• Finnish: mitata askelin
• French: arpenter (fr)
• Japanese: 歩測する (ja) (ほそくする, hosoku suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skritte opp

  Nynorsk: stege opp

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: измеря́ть шага́ми (izmerjátʹ šagámi)
• Swahili: mwendo (sw)

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pace, “in peace”, ablative form of pax, “peace”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːtʃeɪ/, /ˈpeɪsiː/

Preposition

pace

1. (formal) With all due respect to.

Usage notes

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

Translations

With due respect to

• Catalan: amb tot el respecte per
• Finnish: kaikella kunnioituksella
• Russian: при всём уваже́нии (pri vsjom uvažénii), при всём моём уваже́нии (pri vsjom mojóm uvažénii)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: con el debido respeto, con todo respeto (es)
• Swedish: med all aktning för, med all respekt för

Etymology 3

Alteration of Pasch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /peɪs/

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

Derived terms

• pace egg

Anagrams

• APEC, Cape, EPAC, EPCA, PECA, cape

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Esperanto

Etymology

paco +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adverb

pace

1. peacefully

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Galician

Verb

pace

1. third-person singular present indicative of pacer
2. second-person singular imperative of pacer

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tse/

Noun

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin pācem, accusative of pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpäːt͡ʃe̞]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pà‧ce

Noun

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

Adverb

pace

1. (colloquial) that's it; end of the story

   pace e amen

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

Related terms

• pacatezza
• pacato

• pace interiore, pace della mente
• pacificare
• pacifico

Anagrams

• cape

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.ke/, [ˈpäːkɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpäːt͡ʃe]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) pāce

1. ablative singular of pāx

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Middle English

Verb

pace

1. proceed; go forward
   • (Can we date this quote?) Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue

     Er that I ferther in this tale pace, / Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree […]

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀧𑀘𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• पचे (Devanagari script)
• পচে (Bengali script)
• පචෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ပစေ or ပၸေ (Burmese script)
• ปเจ or ปะเจ (Thai script)
• ᨷᨧᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ປເຈ or ປະເຈ (Lao script)
• បចេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄛𑄌𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

pace

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
2. singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin pācem, accusative of pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

Noun

pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

Declension

declension of pace (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) pace	pacea
genitive/dative	(unei) păci	păcii
vocative	pace, paceo

Antonyms

• război

Derived terms

• pașnic

Related terms

• împăca

See also

• liniște

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Spanish

Verb

pace

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pacer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pacer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pacer.