different between payer vs paker

English

Alternative forms

• payor

Etymology

pay +? -er (“subject of action”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pe?.?/
• Rhymes: -e??(r)

Noun

payer (plural payers)

1. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
2. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.

Antonyms

• payee

Derived terms

• taxpayer

Translations

Anagrams

• Peary, apery, peary, praye, rapey, repay

French

Etymology

From Middle French payer, from Old French paiier, paier, from Latin pac?re, present active infinitive of pac? (“pacify”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.je/, /pe.je/

Verb

payer

1. (transitive) to pay (for)

   payer une amende - pay a fine

   payer un service - pay for a service

2. (transitive) to pay (someone)

   payer la caissière - pay the cashier

3. (transitive) to buy (something)

4. pay for (suffer the consequences of something)

5. to pay off (to be fruitful)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer's preference).

Derived terms

Related terms

• paix

Further reading

• “payer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French paiier.

Verb

payer

1. to pay

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: payer
• ? Dutch: paaien (possibly)

Norman

Alternative forms

• payi (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French paiier, from Latin p?c?, p?c?re (“make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue”), from p?x (“peace”).

Verb

payer

1. (Guernsey) to pay

English

Noun

paker (plural pakers)

1. (obsolete) A vagrant, stroller

References

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. Quoted in plural (pakers)

Anagrams

• Parke, Pekar, Perak, Repka

Indonesian

Etymology

From Madurese [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pak?r]
• Hyphenation: pa?kêr

Adjective

paker

1. (Madura) too bitter.

   Synonym: pahit

Further reading

• “paker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.