payer

• payor

pay +‎ -er (“subject of action”)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪə(r)

payer (plural payers)

1. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
2. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.

• payee

• taxpayer

• apery, peary, praye, rapey, repay

From Middle French payer, from Old French paiier, paier, from Latin pacāre, present active infinitive of pacō (“pacify”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.je/, /pe.je/

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payer

1. (transitive) to pay (for)

   payer une amende - pay a fine

   payer un service - pay for a service

2. (transitive) to pay (someone)

   il m'a payé 3 euros - he paid me 3 euros

   payer la caissière - pay the cashier

3. pay for (suffer the consequences of something)

   Tu vas payer pour ce que tu as fait à ma sœur.

4. to pay off (to be fruitful)

   Mes efforts ont payé.

This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to both groups, according to the writer's preference).

• paie, paye
• paiement, payement
• payable
• payeur

• paix

• “payer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French paiier.

payer

1. to pay

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: payer
• → Dutch: paaien (possibly)

• payi (Jersey)

From Old French paiier, from Latin pācō, pācāre (“make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue”), from pāx (“peace”).

payer

1. (Guernsey) to pay