# pais
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeɪ/

### Noun

pais (uncountable)
* (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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “pais”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

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

## Dutch
### Etymology

See the main lemma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑɪ̯s/

### Noun

pais f (uncountable)
* (archaic outside of set phrases) Alternative form of peis

#### Derived terms

* pais en vree

## French
### Verb

pais
* inflection of paître:
** first/second-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* aspi

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpajs/

### Noun

pais m pl (plural only)
* plural of pai
* parents

#### Related terms

* país

### Further reading

* “pai”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈis/

### Noun

pais (plural paises)
* 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, Venetan pajès, Friulian paîs, Sicilian paisi, Romansch pajais, Catalan país, French pays, Portuguese país, Spanish país.

### Noun

pais
* country
* village

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* peis (Guernsey)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

pais m (plural pais)
* (Jersey) pea

#### Synonyms

* pais rond

#### Derived terms

* pais au fou (“bean crock”)
* pais brantcheur (“runner bean”)
* pais d'mai (“French bean”)
* pais lupîn (“lupin”)
* pais-flieur (“sweet pea”)
* pouque à pais (“beanbag”)

## Old French
### Etymology 1

From Latin pācem.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpai̯s/

#### Noun

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

##### Descendants

* Middle French:
** French: paix
* Anglo-Norman: peis
** → Middle English: pees, pes, pese, pece
*** English: peace
*** Yola: pace
* Bourguignon: pois
* Walloon: påye
* → Dutch: peis
* → Middle English: pees, pes, pais

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* païs (scholarly transcription)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈis/

#### Noun

pais oblique singular, m (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)
* 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, paÿs
** French: pays
*** → Catalan: país
*** → Portuguese: país (see there for further descendants)
*** → Spanish: país

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish país and Portuguese país and Kabuverdianu país.

### Noun

pais
* country

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈiz/

### Noun

pais m
* country
    montagne dël me paismountains of my 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

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpajs/ [ˈpaɪ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpajs/ [ˈpaɪ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpajʃ/ [ˈpaɪ̯ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpajʃ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
* Homophones: paz (Brazil), pás (Brazil)
* Hyphenation: pais

### Noun

pais m pl
* parents
* plural of pai

#### Usage notes

* Not to be confused with país.

## Romansch
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

### Noun

pais m
* (Puter, Vallader) weight

#### Synonyms

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

## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

pais m
* genitive singular of pas

## Taroko
### Noun

pais
* enemy

## Tausug
### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /paʔis/ [paˈʔis]
* Rhymes: -is
* Syllabification: pa‧is

### Noun

pais (Sulat Sūg spelling فَئِسْ)
* skin; rind

#### Derived terms

* magpais
* paisa
* paisan
* paisi
* paisun
* piyais
* piyaisan

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pexa (“combed”).

### Verb

pais f (plural peisau or peisiau)
* petticoat, underskirt
* (obsolete) tunic, jacket, doublet
    Synonyms: tiwnig, dwbled

#### Derived terms

* codi pais ar ôl piso (“to close the door after the horse has bolted”, literally “to lift one's petticoat after pissing”)
* crysbais (“waistcoat, jerkin”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pais”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies