different between pays vs spays

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

pays

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pay

Noun

pays

1. plural of pay

Anagrams

• APYs, AsPy, aspy, pyas, spay, yaps

French

Etymology

From Old French païs, from Late Latin p?g?nsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin p?gus (“countryside; district”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-. See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país.

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.i/, /pe.i/

Noun

pays m (plural pays)

1. land, country, region, nation
2. (politics, geography) country

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: país

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French païs.

Alternative forms

• païs
• paÿs

Noun

pays m (plural pays)

1. land; country; region

Descendants

• French: pays

Norman

Etymology

From Old French païs, from Late Latin p?g?nsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin p?gus (“countryside; district”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pays m (plural pays)

1. (Jersey) country

Derived terms

• Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)

Portuguese

Noun

pays m (plural payses)

1. Obsolete spelling of país

Noun

pays m

1. Obsolete spelling of pais

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pais/, [?pai?s]

Noun

pays m pl

1. plural of pay

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

spays

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spay