au pair

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Borrowed from French au pair.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊ ˈpɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊ ˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/

• Audio (US):

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au pair (plural au pairs)

1. A single girl (or, rarely, a boy), usually a foreigner, who helps a host family with childcare, housework, or both while staying as a guest with a host family, and generally receives a small allowance (or pocket money).

• nursemaid

From French au pair.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯pɑi̯r/,
• Alternatively pronounced as in English.

au pair

1. au pair

• “au pair”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /o pɛʁ/

• Audio:

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au pair (invariable)

1. working for food and housing
   • 1840, Honoré de Balzac, Pierrette:

     Sylvie Rogron fut envoyée à cent écus de pension en apprentissage rue Saint-Denis, chez des négociants nés à Provins. Deux ans après, elle était au pair : si elle ne gagnait rien, ses parents ne payaient plus rien pour son logis et sa nourriture. Voilà ce qu’on appelle être au pair, rue Saint-Denis.

     Sylvie Rogron was sent (with six hundred francs for her board) as apprentice to certain shopkeepers originally from Provins and now settled in Paris in the rue Saint-Denis. Two years later she was "at par" as they say; she earned her own living; at any rate her parents paid nothing for her. That is what is called being "at par" in the rue Saint-Denis.

• fille au pair

• → German: Au-pair

From French au pair.

au pair f (plural au pairs)

1. au pair (person helping a host family with childcare or housework)

Unadapted borrowing from French au pair.

• IPA^(key): /o ˈpeɾ/
• Syllabification: au pair

au pair f (plural au pairs)

1. au pair (person helping a host family with childcare or housework)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “au pair”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From French au pair.

au pair c

1. an au pair

• au pair in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• au pair in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)