paries

See also: pariés and paríes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pariēs (wall of a house or room).

Noun

paries (plural parietes)

  1. The wall of any cavity in the body.
  2. (zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

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Catalan

Verb

paries

  1. second-person singular imperfect indicative form of parir

French

Verb

paries

  1. second-person singular present indicative of parier
  2. second-person singular present subjunctive of parier

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Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Old Norse sparri (wall), Old High German sparro, Russian у-пере́ть (u-perétʹ, to support, to prop up), and Old Church Slavonic прет (pret).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pariēs m (genitive parietis); third declension

  1. The wall of a house or room.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pariēs parietēs
Genitive parietis parietum
Dative parietī parietibus
Accusative parietem parietēs
Ablative pariete parietibus
Vocative pariēs parietēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

pariēs

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of pariō

References

  • paries in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paries in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paries in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • paries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere
    • within four walls: intra parietes (Brut. 8. 32)
  • paries in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paries in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 293
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