pois

See also: Pois, POIS, POIs, pôis, põis, and pȯis

English

Noun

pois

1. plural of poi

Anagrams

• IOPS, IOPs, IPOs, OPIs, PIOs, SIOP, psoi

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Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin pax.

Noun

pois f (plural pois)

1. peace

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• poikse (dialectal)
• poijes (dialectal)
• poikkeen (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pois

Etymology

From lative singular poikki- +‎ -s.

Adverb

pois

1. (of movement) away, off

   Hän meni pois. ― S/he went away. (cf. poissa)

2. (of clothes) off
3. (mathematics) minus, take away

   Synonym: miinus

   Kuudesta pois neljä on kaksi. / Kuusi pois neljä on kaksi.

   Six take away four is two.

Inflection

Declension of pois noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative poikki- – superessive – – genitive – – delative – – partitive – – sublative – – accusative – – lative pois – inessive poissa – temporal – – elative – – causative – – illative – – multiplicative – – adessive – – distributive – – ablative – – temp. dist. – – allative – – prolative poikki (poikitse) – essive – – situative poikittain – translative – – oppositive – – abessive – poikin instructive – – comitative – –

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• poikkinainen
• poikittainen
• poiketa

Compounds

• poisjäänti
• poiskuljetus
• poislähtö
• poispano
• poispäin
• poispääsy
• poissulkea

Anagrams

• sopi

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French

Etymology

From Old French pois, from earlier peis from Latin pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwa/ ~ /pwɑ/, /pwa/

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• Homophones: poids, poix

Noun

pois m (plural pois)

1. pea

Derived terms

• pois chiche

Further reading

• “pois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Adverb

pois

1. afterwards

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pois.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /puˈa/, /ˈpwa/

Noun

pois m (uncountable)

1. polka dot

Anagrams

• posi, sopì, spio, spiò

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Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea, from postus.

Adverb

pois

1. then (indicating chronological order)
2. since

Descendants

• French: puis

Etymology 2

From earlier peis, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Alternative forms

• peis

Noun

pois oblique singular, m (oblique plural pois, nominative singular pois, nominative plural pois)

1. weight

Descendants

• Middle French: poix
  • French: poids

Etymology 3

From Latin pīsum.

Alternative forms

• peis

Noun

pois m (plural)

1. peas (pulses)

Usage notes

The singular pois may not be attested; attestations of "un pois" all seem to refer to other definitions of pois.

Descendants

• French: pois
• Norman: peis

Etymology 4

See poi

Adverb

pois

1. Alternative form of poi (“little, not much”)

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pos, from Latin post, or from Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔjs/

Adverb

pois

1. then

Descendants

• Old Catalan: puis, puixes
  • Catalan: puix
• Occitan: puèi

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• poys (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pois, from Vulgar Latin *pos, from Classical Latin post (“after”). Compare with French puis, Spanish pues, Italian poi, and Romanian apoi (from ad post).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpojs/, /ˈpojʃ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpojʃ/
• Homophone: pôs
• Hyphenation: pois

Adverb

1. so; then (in that case)

   Podemos, pois, terminá-lo.

   So we can finish it.

2. emphasises a yes-or-no answer or an order

   Pois vai!

   Go!

   Pois sim.

   Indeed.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

Conjunction

1. because; for (by or for the cause that)

   Gostei do livro, pois foi interessante.

   I liked the book, because it was interesting.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

Synonyms

• porque

Derived terms

• pois é
• pois então
• pois não?

Related terms

• depois