payer
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to pay (for)
- (transitive) to pay (someone)
- pay for suffer the consequences of something
- to pay off to be fruitful
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French payer inherited from Old French paiier (pay) inherited from Latin pacāre.
Origin
Latin
pacāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pacāre Latin
- pācāre Latin
- pācō, pācāre, paco Latin
- pagare Italian
- paiement French
- payant French
- payement French
- payeur French
- prépaiement French
- repayer French
- surpayer French
- télépaiement French
- payen Middle English
- paiier Old French
- apagar Catalan, Valencian
- pagament Catalan, Valencian
- pagar Catalan, Valencian
- payer Norman
- payer Middle French
- pagar Old Portuguese
- pagar Asturian
- paiâ Friulian
- pagar Old Occitan
- pagar Old Spanish
- pacur Dalmatian
- payé Louisiana Creole French