paries

See also: pariés, paríes, Paries, and Pariès

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pariēs (“wall of a house or room”). Compare French paroi (“wall”), Italian parete (“wall”), Portuguese parede (“wall”) Spanish pared (“wall”) and Romanian perete (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹi.iːz/, /ˈpɛəɹi.iːz/, /ˈpɛəɹiːz/

Noun

paries (plural parietes)

1. (anatomy, botany) The wall of any cavity or organ.
2. (zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

Related terms

• parietal

Translations

wall of any cavity in the body

• Dutch: wand (nl) m
• French: paroi (fr) f

Anagrams

• Persia, Pearis, aspire, spirea, paires, Arispe, perais, Parise, Paresi, praise

Catalan

Verb

paries

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of parir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

paries

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of parier

Anagrams

• aspire, aspiré, paires, repais

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.ri.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ri.es]

Etymology 1

From a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Old Norse sparri (“wall”), Old High German sparro, Russian у-пере́ть (u-perétʹ, “to support, to prop up”), and Old East Slavic пьрть (pĭrtĭ).

Alternative forms

• parēs (Late Latin)

Noun

pariēs m (genitive parietis); third declension

1. a wall; the wall of a house or room

   Hypernym: mūrus

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.19:

     Cum ā mē quoque id respōnsum tulissēs — mē nūllō modō posse īsdem parietibus tūtō esse tēcum, quī magnō in perīculō essem quod īsdem moenibus continērēmur — ad Q. Metellum praetōrem vēnistī.

     When you also received that reply from me — that I could in no way be safe within the same house [walls] with you, because I was in great danger given that we were held within the same city walls — you went to Quintus Metellus, the praetor.
     (Exemplifies synecdoche, a form of metonymy, in the contrast of parietibus and moenibus.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pariēs	parietēs
genitive	parietis	parietum
dative	parietī	parietibus
accusative	parietem	parietēs
ablative	pariete	parietibus
vocative	pariēs	parietēs

Derived terms

• parietālis
• parietārius
• parietīnus

Descendants

(Note: see also parēs.)

• → English: paries

Further reading

• “paries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "paries", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “paries”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere
    
  • within four walls: intra parietes (Brut. 8. 32)
    
• “paries”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “paries”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology 2

Verb

pariēs

1. singular future active indicative of pariō, parere (“to produce”)

Etymology 3

Verb

pariēs

1. singular present active subjunctive of pariō, pariāre (“to equalize”)