different between pace vs paca

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pe?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Step.
   1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
   2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th century]

2. Way of stepping.
   1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
   2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
3. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
4. (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 century]
5. (collective) A group of donkeys.
   • 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (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, "Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist, 9 November 2006:

     A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

   • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press (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.

6. (obsolete) Passage, route.
   1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
   2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th-17th century]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

        But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].

   3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pace (not comparable)

1. (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)

1. 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.

2. To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. To measure by walking.

Derived terms

• (set the speed in a race): pacemaker

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin p?ce (“in peace”), ablative form of p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæt?e?/, /?p??t?e?/, /?pe?si?/

Preposition

pace

1. (formal) With all due respect to.

Usage notes

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

Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pe?s/

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

Derived terms

• pace egg

References

Anagrams

• APEC, CAPE, Cape, EAPC, EPAC, EPCA, PECA, cape

Esperanto

Etymology

paco +? -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

pace

1. peacefully

Galician

Verb

pace

1. third-person singular present indicative of pacer
2. second-person singular imperative of pacer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tse/

Noun

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

Italian

Etymology

From Latin p?cem, accusative of p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t??e/
• Hyphenation: pà?ce

Noun

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

Adverb

pace

1. (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story

Related terms

Anagrams

• cape

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ke/, [?pä?k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.t??e/, [?p??t???]

Noun

p?ce

1. ablative singular of p?x

Middle English

Verb

pace

1. 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 […]

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

pace

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
2. singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?s?/

Noun

pace m anim

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

Noun

pace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

Noun

pace f

1. dative/locative singular of paka

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin p?cem, accusative of p?x (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-.

Noun

pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

Declension

Antonyms

• r?zboi

Derived terms

• pa?nic

Related terms

• împ?ca

See also

• lini?te

Spanish

Verb

pace

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pacer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pacer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pacer.

English

Etymology

Via Spanish paca and Portuguese paca, from Guaraní paka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæk?/
• Rhymes: -æk?

Noun

paca (plural pacas)

1. Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides.

Derived terms

• lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)
• mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii)

Synonyms

• gibnut (Belize)
• labba (Guyana)
• royal rat

Translations

See also

• Cuniculus hernandezi
• paca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AACP, ACPA, APAC, APCA, CAAP, CAPA, PAAc, capa

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ka/

Verb

p?ca

1. (transitive) to wash

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 244
• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) , “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011, retrieved 17 June 2007
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 182
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 228

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pat?sa/
• Hyphenation: pa?ca
• Rhymes: -at?sa

Adjective

paca (accusative singular pacan, plural pacaj, accusative plural pacajn)

1. peaceful, not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil
2. peaceful, motionless and calm

Derived terms

• pacema

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t?s?]
• Hyphenation: pa?ca
• Rhymes: -t?s?

Noun

paca (plural pacák)

1. (informal) inkspot

Declension

Synonyms

• tintafolt
• tintapaca

Derived terms

• pacáz
• tintapaca

Further reading

• paca in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Alternative forms

• puca (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English pakke, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ak?/

Noun

paca m (genitive singular paca, nominative plural pacaí)

1. pack (bundle to be carried)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "paca" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “paca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “paca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology 1

Via Spanish paca, from Guaraní paka.

Noun

paca m (invariable)

1. (zoology) paca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paca

1. inflection of pacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• capa

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ka?/, [?pä?kä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.ka/, [?p??k?]

Verb

p?c?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of p?c?

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

paca

1. inflection of pacati (“to cook”):
   1. second-person singular imperative active
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect active

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?sa/

Etymology 1

Noun

paca f

1. trowel, smoother, skimmer (tool for applying a smooth layer of mortar, plaster, etc.)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

paca m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of pac

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paca

1. third-person singular present of paca?

Further reading

• paca in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• paca in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Alternate form of pacas.

Adverb

paca (not comparable)

1. (Brazil, familiar) a lot; super

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paka/, [?pa.ka]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French pacque.

Noun

paca f (plural pacas)

1. bale (bundle)

   Synonyms: fardo, lío

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

paca f (plural pacas)

1. female equivalent of paco (“police officer”)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Guaraní paka.

Noun

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (chiefly Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)

   Synonyms: (Colombian Amazonia) boruga, (Panama) conejo pintado, (Colombia) guagua, (Ecuador) guanta, (Northwestern Colombia) guartinaja, (Bolivia) jochi pintado, (Venezuela, Colombian Llanos) lapa, (Peru) majaz, tepezcuintle, (Mexico, Central America) tepezcuinte, (Northeastern Colombia) tinajo