pace

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pace"

English

WOTD – 19 November 2012

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /peɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. A step.
   1. A step taken with the foot. [from 14th c.]
   2. The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. [from 14th c.]

      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.

2. A way of stepping.
   1. A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet. [from 14th c.]
      • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

        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 c.]
3. Speed or velocity in general. [from 15th c.]
   • 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.

4. (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 c.]
5. (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.

6. (obsolete) A passage, a route.
   1. (obsolete) One's journey or route. [14th–18th c.]
   2. (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. [14th–17th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

        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 c.]

Derived terms

• at pace
• change of pace
• cinque-pace
• force the pace
• gather pace
• geometrical pace
• keep pace
• keep the pace
• medium pace
• mend one's pace
• pace bowler
• pace bowling
• pace car
• pace lap
• pacemaker
• pace notes
• pace-of-life syndrome
• pacer
• pace-setter
• pace setter
• pace-setting
• pace stick
• pick up the pace
• put one through one's paces
• requiescant in pace
• requiescat in pace
• set the pace
• snail pace
• snail's pace
• turn of pace
• walking pace

Descendants

• → Japanese: ペース (pēsu)

Translations

step: step

• Armenian: քայլ (hy) (kʻayl)
• Bashkir: аҙым (aźım)
• Belarusian: крок m (krok)
• Bulgarian: стъпка (bg) f (stǎpka)
• Catalan: pas (ca) m
• Chamicuro: tepane
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步伐 (zh) (bùfá), 步幅 (bùfú), 腳步 / 脚步 (zh) (jiǎobù)

• Czech: krok (cs)
• Esperanto: paŝo
• Finnish: askel (fi)
• French: pas (fr) m
• Galician: paso m
• German: Schritt (de) m
• Greek: βήμα (el) n (víma)
• Hungarian: lépés (hu)
• Ingrian: harkkamus
• Italian: passo (it)
• Japanese: 歩幅 (ja) (ほはば, hohaba)
• Latin: passus (la), gradus (la)
• Latvian: solis m
• Macedonian: чекор m (čekor)
• Maori: whetoko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: steg (no) n, skritt (no) n

  Nynorsk: steg n

• Ottoman Turkish: آدیم (adım)
• Plautdietsch: Schrett m
• Polish: krok (pl) m
• Portuguese: passo (pt) m
• Romanian: pas (ro)
• Russian: шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Slovak: krok m
• Slovene: korak m
• Spanish: paso (es) m
• Swahili: mwendo (sw)
• Ukrainian: крок (uk) m (krok)

step: distance covered

• Bulgarian: крачка (bg) f (kračka)
• Catalan: passa (ca) f
• Finnish: askel (fi) (one), askelpari (two), askelmitta
• French: pas (fr) m
• Galician: paso m
• German: Schritt (de) m
• Ingrian: harkkamus
• Maori: whetoko
• Ottoman Turkish: آدیم (adım)
• Russian: шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Slovene: korak m
• Spanish: paso (es) m
• Swahili: mwendo (sw) class m/mi

way of stepping: rate or style of how someone moves with their feet

• Bulgarian: походка (bg) f (pohodka), вървеж (bg) m (vǎrvež)
• Catalan: pas (ca) m
• Finnish: liike (fi), jalkatyö
• Galician: paso m, andar (gl) m
• German: Gangart (de) f
• Russian: по́ступь (ru) f (póstupʹ), похо́дка (ru) f (poxódka), шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Ukrainian: хода (xoda), крок (uk) (krok)

way of stepping: gait of a horse

• Catalan: pas (ca) m
• Finnish: passi (fi), askellaji
• German: Passgang (de) m, Pass (de) m
• Japanese: 側対歩 (そくたいほ, sokutaiho), だく足 (だくあし, dakuashi), アンブル (anburu)
• Latvian: gaita (lv) f
• Norwegian: pass (no)
• Russian: и́ноходь (ru) f (ínoxodʹ), аллю́р (ru) m (alljúr)
• Spanish: trote (es) m (slow), galope (es) m (speedy)
• Ukrainian: одно́хідь f (odnóxidʹ)

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)
• Macedonian: темпо n (tempo)
• 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, cadencia (es) f
• Swahili: mwendo (sw) class m/mi
• Ukrainian: темп m (temp)

cricket: measure of pitch hardness

collective noun for donkeys

• Finnish: lauma (fi)
• German: Herde (de) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} tempo (nl) n
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} paso m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} passo (it) m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 걸음 (ko) (georeum)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 步幅 (bùfú)

Adjective

pace (not comparable)

1. (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)

1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
   • 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. To set the speed in a race.
   • 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 70:

     The clubs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc., hold various track meetings for races varying from one mile to fifty miles, the longer distances being sometimes paced by tandems.

3. To measure by walking.

Derived terms

• pacemaker
• pace off
• pace oneself
• pace out

Translations

to walk to and fro

• Bulgarian: крача (bg) (krača)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏏᏰᎠ (atsvsiyea)
• Dutch: ijsberen (nl)
• Esperanto: paŝi
• Finnish: astella edestakaisin
• French: arpenter (fr), faire les cent pas (fr)
• German: hin- und herwandern, auf- und abschreiten, streifen (de), tigern (de) (slang)
• Hebrew: פָּסַע (he) (pasá')
• Maori: toihā, whetoko
• Polish: chodzić tam i z powrotem
• Romanian: umbla (ro), mers dus-întors în cameră
• Russian: шага́ть (ru) (šagátʹ) (туда́-сюда́ OR взад и вперёд), расха́живать (ru) (rasxáživatʹ), проха́живаться (ru) (proxáživatʹsja)
• Spanish: trapalear (es)

to set a race’s speed

• Bulgarian: определям темпото (opredeljam tempoto)
• Finnish: määrätä tahti
• Japanese: 速度を保つ (そくどをたもつ, sokudo o tamotsu)
• Russian: задава́ть темп (zadavátʹ temp)
• Spanish: moderarse la cadencia

to measure by walking

• Finnish: mitata askelin
• French: arpenter (fr)
• German: abschreiten (de)
• Japanese: 歩測する (ja) (ほそくする, hosoku suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skritte opp

  Nynorsk: stege opp

• Ottoman Turkish: آدیملامق (adımlamak)
• Russian: измеря́ть шага́ми (izmerjátʹ šagámi)

Etymology 2

From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).

Pronunciation

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

Preposition

pace

1. (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

With due respect to

• Bulgarian: с ваше позволение (s vaše pozvolenie), при цялото ми уважение (pri cjaloto mi uvaženie)
• Catalan: amb tot el respecte per
• Finnish: kaikella kunnioituksella
• Portuguese: com o devido respeito a
• Russian: при всём уваже́нии (pri vsjom uvažénii), при всём моём уваже́нии (pri vsjom mojóm uvažénii)
• Spanish: con el debido respeto, con todo respeto (es)
• Swedish: med all aktning för, med all respekt för

Etymology 3

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /peɪs/

Noun

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

Derived terms

• pace egg

Anagrams

• EPAC, EPCA, Cape, EAPC, PECA, Apec, cape, CAPE, APEC

Corsican

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpatʃe/, /ˈpadʒe/

Noun

pace f

1. peace

Esperanto

Etymology

paco +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adverb

pace

1. peacefully

Galician

Verb

pace

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tse/

Noun

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Hyphenation: pà‧ce

Noun

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

Adverb

pace

1. (colloquial) peace be with you; that's it; end of the story

   pace e amen ― peace be with you and amen

Related terms

• pacatezza
• pacato
• pace interiore, pace della mente
• pacificare
• pacifico

Anagrams

• cape

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.ke/, [ˈpäːkɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈpäːt͡ʃe]

Noun

pāce f

1. ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)

Middle English

Verb

pace

1. 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 […]

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 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

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

Papuan Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Malay pakcik.

Noun

pace

1. form of address for a man

   Coordinate term: mace

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡sɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
• Syllabification: pa‧ce

Noun

pace m animal

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

Noun

pace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

Noun

pace f

1. dative/locative singular of paka

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpat͡ʃe/

• Audio:

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Noun

pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

   Antonym: război

Declension

Declension of pace

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pace	pacea
genitive-dative	păci	păcii
vocative	pace, paceo

Derived terms

• pașnic

Related terms

• împăca

See also

• liniște

Spanish

Verb

pace

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

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English pees, from Anglo-Norman peis, from Latin pax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːs/

Noun

pace

1. 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