pagare

pagare

1. inflection of pagar:
   1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

From earlier *pacare, inherited from Latin pacāre, from pax, pacis (“peace”). Doublet of pacare, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡa.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pa‧gà‧re

pagàre (first-person singular present pàgo, first-person singular past historic pagài, past participle pagàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (ambitransitive) to pay (money, a bill, the rent, etc.)
   • 1211, anonymous author, untitled document; collected in “Frammento di un libro di banchieri fiorentini scritto nel 1211 ”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 19, lines 234–236:

     dino pagare tredici dì anzi kalende luglio

     they have to pay thirteen days before the calends of July

   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Purgatorio , lines 106–108; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata , 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Non vo’ però, lettor, che tu ti smaghi / di buon proponimento per udire / come Dio vuol che ’l debito si paghi.

     But I do not want you, reader, to become distracted from a good intention by listening to how God wants one to pay their debt.

2. (transitive) to pay for

   pagare la cena a qualcuno ― to pay for someone's dinner / to buy someone dinner

3. (transitive, figurative) to compensate, to repay

   pagare la gentilezza con l'ingratitudine ― to repay kindness with ingratitude

   • c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, La rappresentazione di san Giovanni e Paolo ‎; republished in chapter 11, in Attilio Simioni, compiler, Lorenzo de’ Medici il Magnifico - Opere‎, Bari: Laterza, 1913, page 80:

     Se mi dái la metá di questo regno, / non credo mi pagassi, per mia fede; / ma minor cosa mi paga abbastanza, / se arò per sposa tua figlia Costanza.

     If you were to give me half of this kingdom, I would honestly not think you are repaying me; but less than that will repay me, if I can have your daughter Costanza in marriage.

4. (transitive, figurative) to pay for (to suffer the consequences of)

• offrire
• sborsare
• versare
• mettere mano al portafoglio

• pace

• → Alemannic German: päge

pagare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of pagar