pact

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French pacte, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from paciscere (“to agree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt
• Homophone: packed

Noun

pact (plural pacts)

1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
2. (international law) An agreement between two or more nations

Derived terms

• sex pact
• suicide pact

Translations

an agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant

• Arabic: مُعَاهَدَة (ar) f (muʕāhada)
• Armenian: պայմանագիր (hy) (paymanagir)
• Azerbaijani: müqavilə (az)
• Belarusian: пакт m (pakt)
• Bulgarian: пакт (bg) m (pakt)
• Catalan: pacte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 協議／协议 (zh) (xiéyì), 协议 (zh) (xiéyì), 協定／协定 (zh) (xiédìng), 协定 (zh) (xiédìng), 條約／条约 (zh) (tiáoyuē), 条约 (zh) (tiáoyuē)

• Czech: pakt (cs) m
• Danish: pagt c
• Dutch: pact (nl) n
• Finnish: sopimus (fi)
• French: pacte (fr) m
• Galician: pacto m
• Georgian: პაქტი (ṗakṭi)
• German: Pakt (de) m, Vertrag (de) m
• Italian: patto (it) m
• Japanese: 協定 (ja) (きょうてい, kyōtei)
• Khmer: កតិកាសញ្ញា (km) (kaʼtekaa saññaa)
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• Korean: 협정 (hyeopjeong)
• Latin: pactiō f, pactum n
• Malay: pakatan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pakt (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: pakt (no) f

• Oriya: ଚୁକ୍ତି (or) (cukti)
• Persian: پیمان (fa) (peymân), معاهده‎ (mo'âhade)
• Polish: układ (pl) m, pakt (pl) m
• Portuguese: pacto (pt) m
• Russian: пакт (ru) m (pakt), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пакт m

  Roman: pakt (sh) m

• Slovene: pakt m, dogovor m
• Spanish: pacto (es) m
• Swahili: agano (sw)
• Swedish: pakt (sv)
• Thai: ข้อตกลง (kɔ̂ɔ-dtòk-long) (law)
• Ukrainian: пакт m (pakt)

an agreement between two or more nations

• Thai: กติกาสัญญา (gà-dtì-gaa-sǎn-yaa)
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Further reading

• “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “pact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Capt, Capt., P.C.A.T., PCAT, PTCA, TCAP, capt

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Noun

pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)

1. pact

Derived terms

• Warschaupact