pay
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). Displaced native Middle English yelden, yielden (“to pay”) (from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”)) and Middle English schotten (“to pay, make payment”) (from Old English sċot, ġesċot (“payment”)).
Verb[edit]
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)
- (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- he paid him to clean the place up
- he paid her off the books and in kind where possible
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
- (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- she offered to pay the bill
- he has paid his debt to society
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 37:21:
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto)[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- to pay attention
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- not paying me a welcome
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620, page 9:
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- crime doesn’t pay
- it will pay to wait
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
- I'll pay that.
- 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:
- Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | pay | ||||||||||
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present participle | paying | ||||||||||
past participle | payed | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I pay | we pay | I am paying | we are paying | I have payed | we have payed | I have been paying | we have been paying | |||
you pay | you pay | you are paying | you are paying | you have payed | you have payed | you have been paying | you have been paying | ||||
he pays | they pay | he is paying | they are paying | he has payed | they have payed | he has been paying | they have been paying | ||||
past | I payed | we payed | I was paying | we were paying | I had payed | we had payed | I had been paying | we had been paying | |||
you payed | you payed | you were paying | you were paying | you had payed | you had payed | you had been paying | you had been paying | ||||
he payed | they payed | he was paying | they were paying | he had payed | they had payed | he had been paying | they had been paying | ||||
future | I will pay | we will pay | I will be paying | we will be paying | I will have payed | we will have payed | I will have been paying | we will have been paying | |||
you will pay | you will pay | you will be paying | you will be paying | you will have payed | you will have payed | you will have been paying | you will have been paying | ||||
he will pay | they will pay | he will be paying | they will be paying | he will have payed | they will have payed | he will have been paying | they will have been paying | ||||
conditional | I would pay | we would pay | I would be paying | we would be paying | I would have payed | we would have payed | I would have been paying | we would have been paying | |||
you would pay | you would pay | you would be paying | you would be paying | you would have payed | you would have payed | you would have been paying | you would have been paying | ||||
he would pay | they would pay | he would be paying | they would be paying | he would have payed | they would have payed | he would have been paying | they would have been paying | ||||
imperative | pay |
Hypernyms[edit]
- (to give money): compensate
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Noun[edit]
pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)
- Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
- Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:
- The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
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Adjective[edit]
pay (not comparable)
- Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
- pay toilet
- Pertaining to or requiring payment.
Translations[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to pitch”).
Verb[edit]
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed)
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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Further reading[edit]
- pay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pay at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams[edit]
Anguthimri[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay
References[edit]
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187
Azerbaijani[edit]
Other scripts | ||
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Cyrillic | пај | |
Roman | pay | |
Perso-Arabic | پای |
Etymology[edit]
According to Nişanyan, from Persian پای (pây, “foot”), with the sense ”share” originating from the Persian expression borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish بای برابر (pây-berâber, “equally, to the same proportion”, literally “equal foot”). The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth century Book of Dede Korkut.
The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such as Kirgiz and Yakut пай (pay, “share”) are, according to Nişanyan, a borrowing from the Ottoman Turkish پای, via Russian пай (paj).
Noun[edit]
pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “pay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English pi, Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: pay
Noun[edit]
pay
- the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
- (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π
Jakaltek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Mayan *pahar.
Noun[edit]
pay
References[edit]
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 65; 39
Kalasha[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay
- A goat
Limos Kalinga[edit]
Adverb[edit]
pay
Northern Kurdish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay ?
Old Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay m
- (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)
- Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua
- Your dad [is] on the street / before his door
- Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)
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Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay m (plural pays)
- Obsolete spelling of pai
- 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Reſẽnde que trata da vida […] do christianiſſimo; muito alto ⁊ muyto poderoſo principe el Rey dõ João o ſegundo deſte nome, page 1:
- De ſeu pay ⁊ ſua mãy ⁊ ſeu nacimento.
- About his father and his mother and his birth.
- De ſeu pay ⁊ ſua mãy ⁊ ſeu nacimento.
- 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Reſẽnde que trata da vida […] do christianiſſimo; muito alto ⁊ muyto poderoſo principe el Rey dõ João o ſegundo deſte nome, page 1:
Quechua[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
pay
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Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay m (plural pays)
Derived terms[edit]
- pay de queso (“cheesecake”) (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala)
- pay de coco (“coconut cream pie”)
- pay de leche condensada (“condensed milk cake”)
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Turkic.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pay (definite accusative payı, plural paylar)
Declension[edit]
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | pay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | payı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | pay | paylar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | payı | payları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | paya | paylara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | payda | paylarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | paydan | paylardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | payın | payların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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