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pay
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?, IPA(key): /pe?/, [p?e?]
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin p?c?re (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin p?c?re (“to pacify”). Displaced native Middle English yelden, yielden (“to pay”) (from Old English ?ieldan (“to pay”)) and Middle English schotten (“to pay, make payment”) (from Old English s?ot, ?es?ot (“payment”)).
Verb
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)
- (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
- (transitive) To be profitable for.
- (transitive) To give (something else than money).
- (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
- (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
- (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
- (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
Conjugation
Hypernyms
- (to give money): compensate
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: paysa
- ? Scottish Gaelic: pàigh
Translations
Noun
pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)
- Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
pay (not comparable)
- Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
- Pertaining to or requiring payment.
Translations
Etymology 2
Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to pitch”).
Verb
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed)
- (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Translations
Further reading
- pay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pay at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- APY, Yap, pya, yap
Anguthimri
Noun
pay
- (Mpakwithi) forehead
- (Mpakwithi) face
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187
Azerbaijani
Etymology
According to Ni?anyan, from Persian ???? (pây, “foot”), with the sense ”share” originating from the Persian expression borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish ??? ?????? (pây-berâber, “equally, to the same proportion”, literally “equal foot”). The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth century Book of Dede Korkut.
The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such as Kirgiz and Yakut ??? (pay, “share”) are, according to Ni?anyan, a borrowing from the Ottoman Turkish ????, via Russian ??? (paj).
Noun
pay (definite accusative pay?, plural paylar)
- share
- portion
Declension
Derived terms
- paylamaq (“to distribute”)
- payla?maq (“to divide among one-selves”)
References
- Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “pay”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük
Cebuano
Etymology
From English pi, Ancient Greek ??? (peî).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pay
Noun
pay
- the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
- (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written ?
Jakaltek
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *pahar.
Noun
pay
- skunk
References
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 65; 39
Kalasha
Noun
pay
- A goat
Limos Kalinga
Adverb
pay
- too
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Turkish pay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??j/
Noun
pay ?
- share
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?paj/
Noun
pay m
- (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)
- Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua
- Your dad [is] on the street / before his door
- Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua
- 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)
Synonyms
- padre
Coordinate terms
- mãy, madre
Descendants
- Galician: pai
- Portuguese: pai
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
- Indo-Portuguese: pai
- Kabuverdianu: pai
- Kristang: pai
- Sãotomense: pe
- Annobonese: pe
Portuguese
Noun
pay m (plural pays)
- Obsolete spelling of pai
- 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Re??nde que trata da vida […] do christiani??imo; muito alto ? muyto podero?o principe el Rey dõ João o ?egundo de?te nome, page 1:
- De ?eu pay ? ?ua mãy ? ?eu nacimento.
- About his father and his mother and his birth.
- De ?eu pay ? ?ua mãy ? ?eu nacimento.
- 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Re??nde que trata da vida […] do christiani??imo; muito alto ? muyto podero?o principe el Rey dõ João o ?egundo de?te nome, page 1:
Quechua
Pronoun
pay
- he, she, it
See also
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English pie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pai/, [?pai?]
- Rhymes: -aj
Noun
pay m (plural pays)
- (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru) pie (food)
Derived terms
- pay de queso (“cheesecake”) (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala)
- pay de coco (“coconut cream pie”)
- pay de leche condensada (“condensed milk cake”)
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [paj]
- Hyphenation: pay
Noun
pay (definite accusative pay?, plural paylar)
- portion
- (arithmetic) numerator
Declension
Synonyms
- hak
Antonyms
- payda
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compensation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French compensacion, from Latin compens?ti?nem, accusative singular of compens?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?mp?n?se???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
compensation (countable and uncountable, plural compensations)
- The act or principle of compensating.
- Synonym: restitution
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- Synonyms: amends, remuneration, recompense
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
- Synonym: set-off
- A recompense or reward for service.
- Synonym: restitution
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- Coordinate term: degeneracy
Derived terms
Related terms
- compensate
Translations
Anagrams
- camponotines, companion set
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comp?ns?ti?, comp?ns?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.p??.sa.sj??/
Noun
compensation f (plural compensations)
- compensation
Related terms
- compenser
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