paire (pluralpaires)
- Obsolete form ofpair.
Inherited fromOld Frenchpaire, fromLatinparia, neuter plural ofpār.
paire
- femininesingular ofpair
paire f (pluralpaires)
- apair; acouple
paire
- inflection ofpairar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
FromOld Frenchpaire, fromLatinparia.
paire (pluralpaire)
- Apair; a group of twosimilar,identical, or matching items or creatures:
- Twopeople(often when in a romantic or sexualrelationship).
- Twoanimals; a pair or duo ofbeasts orcreatures.
- Used withbinary nouns, especially for tools or implements.
- Agrouping orcollection ofmatching orsimilar items.
- Anumber ormultitude of things or items.
The-s plural is attested aspares.
FromOld Occitanpaire, fromLatinpater, patrem(“father”).
paire m (pluralpaires)
- father
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
paire
- first-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofpairar
- third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofpairar
FromLatinpater, patrem.
paire m (oblique pluralpaires,nominative singularpaires,nominative pluralpaire)
- father
paire
- inflection ofpairar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
