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English
Etymology 1
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
Noun
pace (plural paces)
- A step.
- A step taken with the foot.
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
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.
- A way of stepping.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- Speed or velocity in general.
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.
- (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A passage, a route.
- (obsolete) One's journey or route.
- (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.
- (obsolete) An aisle in a church.
Derived terms
Translations
way of stepping: rate or style of how someone moves with their feet
way of stepping: gait of a horse
speed
- Belarusian: тэмп m (temp)
- Bulgarian: темпо (bg) n (tempo)
- Catalan: pas (ca) m, ritme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 速度 (zh) (sùdù)
- Czech: tempo (cs) n
- Finnish: tahti (fi)
- French: rythme (fr) m, train (fr) m, tempo (fr) m
- German: Tempo (de) n, Geschwindigkeit (de) f
- Greek: ρυθμός (el) m (rythmós)
- Italian: ritmo (it)
- Japanese: 歩調 (ja) (ほちょう, hochō), 速度 (ja) (そくど, sokudo), ペース (ja) (pēsu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: takt m or f
- Nynorsk: takt m or f
- Polish: tempo (pl) n
- Portuguese: passo (pt) m, ritmo (pt)
- Romanian: ritm (ro) n, pas (ro) m, tempo (ro) n
- Russian: темп (ru) m (tɛmp), ско́рость (ru) f (skórostʹ)
- Slovene: hitrost (sl) f
- Spanish: paso (es) m, ritmo (es) m
- Swahili: mwendo (sw) class m/mi
- Ukrainian: темп m (temp)
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cricket: measure of pitch hardness
collective noun for donkeys
Translations to be checked
Adjective
pace (not comparable)
- (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.
Verb
pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)
- To walk back and forth in a small distance.
- To set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To measure by walking.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
pace
- (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
Usage notes
Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.
Translations
Etymology 3
Alteration of archaic Pasch.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /peɪs/
Noun
pace (plural paces)
- Easter.
Derived terms
References
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
paco + -e
Pronunciation
Adverb
pace
- peacefully
Galician
Verb
pace
- inflection of pacer:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
pace (uncountable)
- peace
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pācem (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
pace f (plural paci)
- peace
Adverb
pace
- (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story
- pace e amen ― peace be with you and amen
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
pāce f
- ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)
Middle English
Verb
pace
- 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
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀧𑀘𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- पचे (Devanagari script)
- পচে (Bengali script)
- පචෙ (Sinhalese script)
- ပစေ or ပၸေ (Burmese script)
- ปเจ or ปะเจ (Thai script)
- ᨷᨧᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ປເຈ or ປະເຈ (Lao script)
- បចេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄛𑄌𑄬 (Chakma script)
Verb
pace
- first-person singular present/imperative middle of pacati (“to cook”)
- singular optative active of pacati (“to cook”)
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
pace m animal
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac
Noun
pace f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca
Noun
pace f
- dative/locative singular of paka
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pācem, accusative of pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
pace f (uncountable)
- peace
- Antonym: război
Declension
declension of pace (singular only)
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singular
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f gender
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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nominative/accusative
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(o) pace
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pacea
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genitive/dative
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(unei) păci
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păcii
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vocative
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pace, paceo
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Derived terms
Related terms
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Spanish
Verb
pace
- inflection of pacer:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English pees, from Anglo-Norman peis, from Latin pax.
Pronunciation
Noun
pace
- 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
- 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