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English

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Etymology 1

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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

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Noun

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pace (plural paces)

  1. A step.
    1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th c.]
    2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.[1] [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.
  2. A way of stepping.
    1. 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[1]:
        Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
    2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th c.]
  3. 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.
  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 c.]
  5. (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.
  6. (obsolete) A passage, a route.
    1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th–18th c.]
    2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th–17th c.]
    3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th–19th c.]
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Japanese: ペース (pēsu)
Translations
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Adjective

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pace (not comparable)

  1. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

Verb

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

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

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Preposition

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pace

  1. (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
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Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

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Etymology 3

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Alteration of archaic Pasch.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /peɪs/

Noun

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pace (plural paces)

  1. Easter.
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References

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  1. ^ 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

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Corsican

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpatʃe/, /ˈpadʒe/

Noun

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pace f

  1. peace

Esperanto

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Etymology

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paco +‎ -e

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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pace

  1. peacefully

Galician

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Verb

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pace

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

Interlingua

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Noun

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pace (uncountable)

  1. peace

Italian

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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pace f (plural paci)

  1. peace

Adverb

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pace

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

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Noun

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pāce f

  1. ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)

Middle English

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Verb

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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 […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Pali

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Verb

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pace

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

Papuan Malay

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay pakcik.

Noun

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pace

  1. form of address for a man
    Coordinate term: mace

Polish

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Noun

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pace m animal

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

Noun

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pace f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

Noun

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pace f

  1. dative/locative singular of paka

Romanian

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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pace f (uncountable)

  1. peace
    Antonym: război

Declension

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative pace pacea
genitive-dative păci păcii
vocative pace, paceo

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Spanish

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Verb

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pace

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

Yola

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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pace

  1. 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

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  • 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
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