pared

See also: parêd

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɛəd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɛɹd/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /peːd/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /peəd/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /piəd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /peɹd/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
• Homophones: paired; peered (cheer–chair merger); purred (fair–fur merger)

Verb

pared

1. simple past and past participle of pare

Anagrams

• repad, padre, reap'd, raped, dreap, Padre, Preda, Pedra, drape, Praed

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish pared (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa‧red

Noun

pared

1. wall

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pader (nonstandard, obsolete outside New Mexico)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Classical Latin pariēs

Late Latin parētem

Old Spanish pared

Spanish pared

Inherited from Old Spanish pared, from Late Latin parēs, -ētem, from Latin pariēs, -ietem. Compare Portuguese parede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾed/ [paˈɾeð̞]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ed
• Syllabification: pa‧red

Noun

pared f (plural paredes)

1. wall, especially of a house or room

   Synonyms: muro; see also Thesaurus:pared

Derived terms

• blanco como la pared
• cuarta pared
• darse con la cabeza en la pared, darse con la cabeza en las paredes
• de pared
• entre cuatro paredes
• entre la espada y la pared
• hasta la pared de enfrente
• las paredes oyen
• las paredes tienen ojos
• manta de pared
• pared celular
• reloj de pared
• subirse por las paredes

Related terms

• emparedado
• paredón
• parietal

Descendants

• Chavacano: pared
• → Cebuano: paril, pared
• → Central Bikol: paril
• → Hiligaynon: pader
• → Pangasinan: parel
• → Tagalog: pader

Further reading

• “pared”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• padre, preda

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh paret, paraet, parwyt, from Proto-Brythonic *paruɨd, from Late Latin parēs.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈparɛd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpa(ː)rɛd/

Noun

pared m (plural parwydydd)

1. wall

   Synonyms: mur, wal

Usage notes

The most commonly used word for “wall” in Welsh is wal. The word mur is used most often when referring to large walls such as the defensive walls of a city or Mur Mawr Tsieina (“the Great Wall of China”). The word pared refers to an internal partition wall whereas magwyr is a literary word for an external wall, little used now but preserved in such things as place and plant names.

Derived terms

• paladr y pared (“pellitory of the wall, spreading pellitory”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pared

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pared	bared	mhared	phared

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “pared”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies