pays
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
pays
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pay
Noun[edit]
pays
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French païs, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país.
See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pays m (plural pays)
Derived terms[edit]
- autre pays, autre coutume
- autre pays, autres mœurs
- dépayser
- entendre parler du pays
- mal du pays
- maladie du pays
- nul n’est prophète en son pays
- Pays basque
- pays de cocagne
- pays de Galles
- Pays de la Loire
- pays développé
- pays du Cèdre
- pays du Soleil Levant
- pays d’état
- pays en voie de développement
- pays membre
- paysage
- paysan
- prolétaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous
- vin de pays
- voir du pays
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pays”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French païs.
Noun[edit]
pays m (plural pays)
Descendants[edit]
- French: pays
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French païs, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun[edit]
pays m (plural pays)
Derived terms[edit]
- Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
pays m (plural payses)
- Obsolete spelling of país
Noun[edit]
pays m
- Obsolete spelling of pais
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pays m pl
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