pace

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas; cf. also pass. Cognate with Spanish pasear.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /peɪs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

pace (plural paces)

1. (obsolete) Passage, route.
   1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th-18th century]
   2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th-17th century]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

        But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].

   3. (obsolete) An aisle in a church. [15th-19th century]
2. Step.
   1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th century]
   2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.[1] [from 14th century]

      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.

3. Way of stepping.
   1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th century]
      • 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.

   2. Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait. [from 15th century]
4. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th century]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX, 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.

5. (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 century]
6. A group of donkeys. The collective noun for donkeys.
   • 1952, G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe, The Macmillan Company (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, "Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist, 9 November 2006:

     A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

   • 2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press (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.

pace (not comparable)

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

pace (third-person singular simple present paces, present participle pacing, simple past and past participle paced)

1. Walk to and fro in a small space.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.

2. Set the speed in a race. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Measure by walking.

• (set the speed in a race): pacemaker

From Latin pace, “in peace”, ablative form of pax, “peace”.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːtʃeɪ/, /ˈpeɪsiː/

pace

1. (formal) With all due respect to.

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

Alteration of Pasch.

IPA^(key): /peɪs/

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

• pace egg

• APEC, Cape, EPCA, PECA, cape

paco +‎ -e

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pace

1. peacefully

pace

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tse/

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpäːt͡ʃe̞]

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• Hyphenation: pà‧ce

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

pace

1. (colloquial) that's it; end of the story

   pace e amen

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• cape

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.ke/, [ˈpaː.kɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpaː.t͡ʃe]

pāce

1. ablative singular of pāx

pace

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

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

pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

• război

• pașnic

• împăca

• liniște

pace

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pacer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pacer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pacer.