• (UK,US)IPA^(key):/peɪz/

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• Rhymes:-eɪz

pays

1. third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofpay

pays

1. plural ofpay

• APYs,AsPy,aspy,pyas,spay,yaps

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchpays, fromOld Frenchpais, fromLate Latinpāgēnsis(“inhabitant of a district”), derived fromLatinpāgus(“countryside; district”).

See related terms. Cognates includeItalianpaese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish aspaís. Cognates in regional languages in France:Normanpayis,Gallopeïs,Picardpoaiyis,Bourguignonpaiyis,Franco-Provençalpayis,Occitanpaís,Corsicanpaese.

• IPA^(key):/pɛ.i/ ~/pe.i/,/pɛ.ji/,/pe.ji/

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pays m (pluralpays)

1. land,country,region,nation
2. (politics,geography)country

• → Catalan:país
• → Galician:país
• → Portuguese:país (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish:país

• “pays”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• païs,paÿs

FromOld Frenchpais.

pays m (pluralpays)

1. land;country;region

• French:pays
  • → Catalan:país
  • → Galician:país
  • → Portuguese:país (see there for further descendants)
  • → Spanish:país

FromOld Frenchpaïs, fromLate Latinpāgēnsis(“inhabitant of a district”), derived fromLatinpāgus(“countryside; district”).

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pays m (pluralpays)

1. (Jersey)country

• Les Pays Bas(“the Netherlands”)

pays m (pluralpayses)

1. Obsolete spelling ofpaís.

pays m

1. Obsolete spelling ofpais.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpais/[ˈpai̯s]
• Rhymes:-ais
• Syllabification:pays

pays m pl

1. plural ofpay