# pace
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /peɪs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪs

#### Noun

pace (plural paces)
* A step.
** A step taken with the foot. [from 14th c.]
** The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th c.]
    Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
    I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces.
* A way of stepping.
** A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th c.]
*** 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎:Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
** Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th c.]
* Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th c.]
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
** 1983, Kathryn Lance, Running for Health, Bantam, →ISBN:The fastest women runners can run a mile in well under five minutes, but in order to reach that goal they've had to train at a much slower pace over thousands of miles.
* (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing. [from 19th c.]
* (collective) A group of donkeys.
** 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company, published 1952, page 29:[…] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.
** 2006 November 9, “Drop the dead donkeys”, in The Economist:A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.
** 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200:Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
* (obsolete) A passage, a route.
** (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th–18th c.]
** (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th–17th c.]
*** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
** (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th–19th c.]

##### Derived terms

* at pace
* change of pace
* cinque-pace
* force the pace
* gather pace
* geometrical pace
* keep pace
* keep the pace
* medium pace
* mend one's pace
* pace bowler
* pace bowling
* pace car
* pace lap
* pacemaker
* pace notes
* pace-of-life syndrome
* pacer
* pace-setter
* pace setter
* pace-setting
* pace stick
* pick up the pace
* put one through one's paces
* requiescant in pace
* requiescat in pace
* set the pace
* snail pace
* snail's pace
* turn of pace
* walking pace

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: ペース (pēsu)

##### Translations

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#### Adjective

pace (not comparable)
* (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

#### Verb

pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)
* To walk back and forth in a small distance.
** 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter V:Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
** 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
* To set the speed in a race.
** 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 70:The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems.
* To measure by walking.

##### Derived terms

* pacemaker
* pace off
* pace oneself
* pace out

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpætʃeɪ/, /ˈpɑːtʃeɪ/, /ˈpeɪsiː/

#### Preposition

pace
* (formal) With all due respect to.
** 1998, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human:She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin

##### Usage notes

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

#### Pronunciation

IPA: /peɪs/

#### Noun

pace (plural paces)
* Easter.

##### Derived terms

* pace egg

### References

* ↑ How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance, ¶ № 6)

### Anagrams

* EPAC, EPCA, Cape, EAPC, PECA, Apec, cape, CAPE, APEC

## Corsican
### Etymology

From Latin pācem (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpatʃe/, /ˈpadʒe/

### Noun

pace f
* peace

## Esperanto
### Etymology

paco +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

pace
* peacefully

## Galician
### Verb

pace
* inflection of pacer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.tse/

### Noun

pace (uncountable)
* peace

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin pācem (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atʃe
* Hyphenation: pà‧ce

### Noun

pace f (plural paci)
* peace

### Adverb

pace
* (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story
    pace e amen ― peace be with you and amen

#### Related terms

* pacatezza
* pacato
* pace interiore, pace della mente
* pacificare
* pacifico

### Anagrams

* cape

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpaː.ke/, [ˈpäːkɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpäːt͡ʃe]

### Noun

pāce f
* ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)

## Middle English
### Verb

pace
* proceed; go forward
** 1387-1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
    Er that I ferther in this tale pace, / Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree […](please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑀘𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* पचे (Devanagari script)
* পচে (Bengali script)
* පචෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ပစေ or ပၸေ (Burmese script)
* ปเจ or ปะเจ (Thai script)
* ᨷᨧᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ປເຈ or ປະເຈ (Lao script)
* បចេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄌𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Verb

pace
* first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
* singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)

## Papuan Malay
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay pakcik.

### Noun

pace
* form of address for a man
    Coordinate term: mace

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.t͡sɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
* Syllabification: pa‧ce

### Noun

pace m animal
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

### Noun

pace f
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

### Noun

pace f
* dative/locative singular of paka

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pācem, accusative of pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpat͡ʃe/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pace f (uncountable)
* peace
    Antonym: război

#### Derived terms

* pașnic

#### Related terms

* împăca

#### See also

* liniște

## Spanish
### Verb

pace
* inflection of pacer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English pees, from Anglo-Norman peis, from Latin pax.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paːs/

### Noun

pace
* peace
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 19-21:—t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, ee garde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromising guardian of common right and public virtue.
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 21-23:Ye pace——yea, we mai zei, ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,The peace——yes, we may say the profound peace—which overspreads the land since your arrival,
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114