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pagare

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Asturian

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Verb

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pagare

  1. inflection of pagar:
    1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
    2. first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

Italian

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Etymology

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From earlier *pacare, inherited from Latin pacāre, from pax, pacis (peace). Doublet of pacare, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /paˈɡa.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: pa‧gà‧re

Verb

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pagàre (first-person singular present pàgo, first-person singular past historic pagài, past participle pagàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (ambitransitive) to pay (money, a bill, the rent, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
    • 1211, anonymous author, untitled document; collected in “Frammento di un libro di banchieri fiorentini scritto nel 1211 [Fragment of a book of Florentine bankers, written in 1211]”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 19, lines 234–236:
      [] dino pagare tredici dì anzi kalende luglio
      [] they have to pay thirteen days before the calends of July
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 106–108; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Non vo’ però, lettor, che tu ti smaghi / di buon proponimento per udire / come Dio vuol che ’l debito si paghi.
      But I do not want you, reader, to become distracted from a good intention by listening to how God wants one to pay their debt.
  2. (transitive) to pay for
    pagare la cena a qualcunoto pay for someone's dinner / to buy someone dinner
  3. (transitive, figurative) to compensate, to repay
    pagare la gentilezza con l'ingratitudineto repay kindness with ingratitude
    • c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, La rappresentazione di san Giovanni e Paolo [The portrayal of saint John and Paul]‎[3]; republished in chapter 11, in Attilio Simioni, compiler, Lorenzo de’ Medici il Magnifico - Opere[4], Bari: Laterza, 1913, page 80:
      Se mi dái la metá di questo regno, / non credo mi pagassi, per mia fede; / ma minor cosa mi paga abbastanza, / se arò per sposa tua figlia Costanza.
      If you were to give me half of this kingdom, I would honestly not think you are repaying me; but less than that will repay me, if I can have your daughter Costanza in marriage.
  4. (transitive, figurative) to pay for (to suffer the consequences of)

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Descendants

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  • Alemannic German: päge

Spanish

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Verb

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pagare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of pagar