# pois
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

pois
* plural of poi

### Anagrams

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

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin pax.

### Noun

pois f (plural pois)
* 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: /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯s̠]
* Rhymes: -ois
* Hyphenation: pois

### Adverb

pois (not comparable)
* (of motion) away, off
    Synonym: (informal) menemään
    Hän meni pois.S/he went away.
    Ota vaatteet pois.Take your clothes off.
* (informal, proscribed, locative) away
    Synonym: poissa
* (mathematics) minus, take away
    Synonym: miinus
    Kuudesta pois neljä on kaksi. / Kuusi pois neljä on kaksi.Six take away four is two.
* (with an imperative form) just (used to reduce the force of an imperative)
    Kysy pois!Just ask! / Go ahead and ask!

#### Inflection

Declension of poikki-
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
poikki-
–superessive
genitive
–delative
partitive
–sublative
accusative
–lative
pois poikki
inessive
poissa
–temporal
elative
–causative
illative
–multiplicative
adessive
–distributive
ablative
–temp. dist.
allative
–prolative
poikitse
essive
–situative
poikittain
translative
–oppositive
abessive
instructive
poikin
comitative

#### Derived terms

* poistaa
* poisajo
* poisehdollistaminen
* poisjääminen
* poisjäänti
* poiskuljetus
* poislähtö
* poismennyt
* poismeno
* poisnukkunut
* poisoppiminen
* poisotto
* poispano
* poispilattu
* poispäin
* poispääsy
* poissiirto
* poissulkea
* poissulkeminen
* poissulkeva

#### Related terms

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

### Further reading

* “pois”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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: /pwa/ ~ /pwɑ/, /pwa/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: poids, poix

### Noun

pois m (plural pois)
* pea
* polka dot

#### Derived terms

* petit pois
* pois cassés
* pois chiche
* pois cultivé
* pois de senteur
* pois vivace
* purée de pois

#### 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: [ˈpojs]

### Adverb

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

### Conjunction

pois
* because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Synonym: porque
* well, well then

#### Derived terms

* pois que (“since”)

#### Related terms

* despois (“after”)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “poys”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “poys”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pois”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pois”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pois”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Ingrian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Adverb

pois
* (of motion) off, away
** 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:Sao: miltaiset linnut lentäät talveks pois?Say: what kind of birds are flying away when winter falls?

#### Synonyms

* pakkoo, väljää, vällää, poikkee

### References

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

## Interlingua
### Adverb

pois
* afterwards

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pois.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puˈa/$^{**}$, /ˈpwa/$^{**}$
* Rhymes: -a

### Noun

pois m (invariable)
* polka dot

### References

* ↑ pois in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* ipso-, posi, sopì, spio, spiò

## Old French
### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea, from postus.

#### Adverb

pois
* then (indicating chronological order)
* 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)
* weight

##### Descendants

* Middle French: poix
** French: poids

### Etymology 3

From Latin pīsum.

#### Alternative forms

* peis

#### Noun

pois m (plural)
* 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
* Alternative form of poi (“little, not much”)

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* pueis

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔjs/

### Adverb

pois
* 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

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpojs/ [ˈpoɪ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpojs/ [ˈpoɪ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpojʃ/ [ˈpoɪ̯ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpojʃ/
* (São Miguel, Azores) IPA: /ˈpøʃ/
* Homophone: pôs (Brazil)
* Hyphenation: pois

### Adverb

pois (not comparable)
* so; then (in that case)
    Podemos, pois, terminá-lo.So we can finish it.
* emphasises a yes-or-no answer or an order
    Pois vai!Go!
    Pois sim.Indeed.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

### Conjunction

pois
* because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Synonym: porque
    Gostei do livro, pois foi interessante.I liked the book, because it was interesting.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

#### Derived terms

* pois é
* pois então
* pois não?

#### Related terms

* depois