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4-letter words (2 found)

PAIS,PIAS,

3-letter words (10 found)

AIS,ASP,PAS,PIA,PIS,PSI,SAI,SAP,SIP,SPA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AS,IS,PA,PI,SI,

You can make 18 words from pais according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pais

pais apis pias ipas aips iaps pasi apsi psai spai aspi sapi pisa ipsa psia spia ispa sipa aisp iasp asip saip isap siap

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Definitions and meaning of pais

pais

Etymology

From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeɪ/

Noun

pais (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, law, in set phrases as mentioned below) The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.

Usage notes

  • A trial per pais is a trial by the country, i.e. by a jury. Matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury. Things which happen in pais happen 'in the country', rather than in a formally constituted court.

Anagrams

  • AIPs, AISP, APIs, ASPI, IAPs, IASP, IPAs, PIAs, PISA, Pisa, SAPI, sipa

French

Verb

pais

  1. inflection of paître:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • aspi

Galician

Noun

pais m pl (plural only)

  1. plural of pai
  2. parents

Related terms

  • país

Further reading

  • “pai” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈis/

Noun

pais (plural paises)

  1. country (nation)

Istriot

Alternative forms

  • paìs

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pagenses, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), from Latin pāgus (“village; district”). Compare Italian paese, Venetian pajès, Friulian paîs, Sicilian paisi, Romansch pajais, Catalan país, French pays, Portuguese país, Spanish país.

Noun

pais

  1. country
  2. village

Norman

Alternative forms

  • peis (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin pīsum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Pronunciation

Noun

pais m (plural pais)

  1. (Jersey) pea

Synonyms

  • pais rond

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin pācem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpai̯s/

Noun

pais oblique singular, f (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)

  2. peace
Descendants
  • French: paix
  • Anglo-Norman: peis
    • → Middle English: pees, pes, pais [1]
      • English: peace
  • Bourguignon: pois
  • Walloon: påye
  • → Dutch: peis
  • → Middle English: [1]

Etymology 2

From Late Latin pāgēnsis, which is derived from Latin pāgus (“country”).

Alternative forms

  • païs (scholarly transcription)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈis/

Noun

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

  2. country; nation
Usage notes
  • The vast majority of facsimiles of manuscripts use pais to mean peace and païs (with a diaeresis on the i) to mean country. While this avoids ambiguity this distinction is not found in the original manuscripts which do not contain diaereses at all.
Descendants
  • Bourguignon: poiys
  • Middle French: pays, païs
    • French: pays
  • → Catalan: país
  • → Occitan: país
  • → Portuguese: país
    • Papiamentu: pais
  • → Spanish: país

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish país and Portuguese país and Kabuverdianu país.

Noun

pais

  1. country

Piedmontese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin pāgēnsis. Compare Italian paese, French pays

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈiz/

Noun

pais m

  1. country

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 817: “il paese” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
  • Homophones: paz (Brazil), pás (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: pais

Noun

pais m pl

  1. parents
  2. plural of pai

Usage notes

  • Not to be confused with país.

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Noun

pais m

  1. (Puter, Vallader) weight

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun) paisa
  • (Sursilvan, Surmiran) peisa
  • (Sutsilvan) pesa

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

pais m

  1. genitive singular of pas

Taroko

Noun

pais

  1. enemy

Source: wiktionary.org