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4-letter words (2 found)

PISO,POIS,

3-letter words (10 found)

IOS,ISO,OIS,OPS,PIS,POI,POS,PSI,SIP,SOP,

2-letter words (9 found)

IO,IS,OI,OP,OS,PI,PO,SI,SO,

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All 4 letters words made out of pois

pois opis pios ipos oips iops posi opsi psoi spoi ospi sopi piso ipso psio spio ispo sipo oisp iosp osip soip isop siop

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Definitions and meaning of pois

pois

Pronunciation

Noun

pois

  1. plural of poi

Anagrams

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

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin pax.

Noun

pois f (plural pois)

  1. peace

Finnish

Alternative forms

  • poikes, poijes, poikkeen (dialectal)

Etymology

poikki- +‎ -s (s-lative singular), through reduction of the earlier and dialectal form poies, poijes (< *poige-s). The variation in the gradation patterns between *-kk- : *-k- and *-k- : *-g- has not been conclusively explained, but the weaker form is found throughout Northern Finnic; see Proto-Finnic *poikki for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯s̠]
  • Rhymes: -ois
  • Syllabification(key): pois

Adverb

pois (not comparable)

  1. (lative) away, off
    Synonym: (informal) menemään
  2. (informal, proscribed, static) away
    Synonym: poissa
  3. (mathematics) minus, take away
    Synonym: miinus
  4. (with an imperative form) just (used to reduce the force of an imperative)

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

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

Further reading

  • “pois”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • sopi

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pois, from earlier peis from Latin pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσος / πίσον (písos / píson).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pwa/, /pwɑ/
  • Homophones: poids, poix

Noun

pois m (plural pois)

  1. pea
  2. polka dot

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: pwa (“bean”)

Further reading

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

Galician

Alternative forms

  • pos, pous

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pois, from Vulgar Latin *postius (“after”). Compare with French puis, Spanish pues, Italian poi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpojs]

Adverb

pois

  1. so; then (in that case)
    Queres ir? Pois vai. ― So you want to go? Then go.

Conjunction

pois

  1. because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Synonym: porque
  2. well, well then

Derived terms

  • pois que (“since”)

Related terms

  • despois (“after”)

References

  • “poys” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “poys” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “pois” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “pois” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “pois” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ingrian

Etymology

Lative of poikki- (“broken”). Akin to Finnish pois.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯z̠]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯ʒ̥]
  • Rhymes: -oi̯s
  • Hyphenation: pois

Adverb

pois

  1. (of motion) off, away

Synonyms

  • pakkoo, väljää, vällää

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 421

Interlingua

Adverb

pois

  1. afterwards

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pois.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puˈa/**, /ˈpwa/**
  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

pois m (invariable)

  1. polka dot

References

Anagrams

  • ipso-, posi, sopì, spio, spiò

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”)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔjs/

Adverb

pois

  1. then

Descendants

  • Occitan: puèi

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

  • Homophone: pôs (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: pois

Adverb

pois (not comparable)

  1. so; then (in that case)
  2. emphasises a yes-or-no answer or an order

Quotations

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Conjunction

pois

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

Derived terms

  • pois é
  • pois então
  • pois não?

Related terms

  • depois

Source: wiktionary.org