pact

English

Etymology

From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”). Probably a doublet of patio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pækt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækt
• Homophone: packed

Noun

pact (plural pacts)

1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pact

   write up a pact

   New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members.

2. (international law) An agreement between two or more nations
3. (military) An alliance or coalition.

Derived terms

• nude pact
• pactless
• pact of silence
• sex pact
• suicide pact

Translations

an agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant

• Albanian: pakt (sq) m
• Arabic: مُعَاهَدَة (ar) f (muʕāhada), مِيثَاق m (mīṯāq), حِلْف m (ḥilf)
• Armenian: պայմանագիր (hy) (paymanagir)
• Azerbaijani: müqavilə (az)
• Belarusian: пакт m (pakt)
• Bulgarian: пакт (bg) m (pakt)
• Catalan: pacte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 協議 / 协议 (zh) (xiéyì), 協定 / 协定 (zh) (xiédìng), 條約 / 条约 (zh) (tiáoyuē)

• Czech: pakt (cs) m
• Danish: pagt c
• Dutch: pact (nl) n
• Estonian: pakt (et)
• Finnish: sopimus (fi)
• French: pacte (fr) m
• Galician: pauto m
• Georgian: პაქტი (ṗakṭi)
• German: Pakt (de) m, Vertrag (de) m
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía), σύμφωνο (el) n (sýmfono)
• Hindi: सन्धि (hi) f (sandhi)
• Hungarian: megállapodás (hu), egyezmény (hu)
• Italian: patto (it) m
• Japanese: 協定 (ja) (きょうてい, kyōtei), 条約 (ja) (じょうやく, jōyaku)
• Kazakh: пакт (pakt), келісім (kelısım)
• Khmer: កតិកាសញ្ញា (km) (kaʼtekaa saññaa)
• Korean: 협정(協定) (hyeopjeong), 조약(條約) (ko) (joyak), 계약(契約) (ko) (gyeyak)
• Kyrgyz: пакт (pakt)
• Latin: pactiō f, pactum n
• Latvian: pakts m
• Lithuanian: paktas (lt) m
• Macedonian: пакт m (pakt)
• Malay: pakatan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pakt (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: pakt (no) f

• Odia: ଚୁକ୍ତି (or) (cukti)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پِیْمان (peymân), مُعاهَدِه (mo'âhade)

• Polish: układ (pl) m, pakt (pl) m
• Portuguese: pacto (pt) m
• Romanian: pact (ro) n

  Cyrillic: пакт n (pact)

• Russian: пакт (ru) m (pakt), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏кт m

  Roman: pȁkt (sh) m

• Slovak: pakt m
• Slovene: pakt m, dogovor m
• Spanish: pacto (es) m
• Swahili: agano (sw)
• Swedish: pakt (sv)
• Tajik: паймон (paymon), муоҳида (muohida), пакт (pakt), аҳднома (ahdnoma), шартнома (šartnoma)
• Thai: ข้อตกลง (kɔ̂ɔ-dtòk-long) (law)
• Turkish: antlaşma (tr), mukavele (tr)
• Ukrainian: пакт m (pakt)
• Urdu: مُعاہَدَہ m (mu'āhada)
• Uzbek: pakt (uz)
• Vietnamese: điều ước (條約), hiệp ước (vi) (協約)

an agreement between two or more nations

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• Czech: pakt (cs) m
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• Polish: pakt (pl) m, układ (pl) m
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• Thai: กติกาสัญญา (gà-dtì-gaa-sǎn-yaa)
• Turkish: antant (tr), pakt (tr)
• Ukrainian: пакт m (pakt)

Verb

pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)

1. (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
   • 1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129:

     When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: pactar (es), paccionar (es)

Further reading

• “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Capt, Capt., P.C.A.T., PCAT, PTCA, TCAP, capt

Dutch

Etymology

From French pacte, from Latin pactum. Doublet of pacht and patio.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)

1. pact

Derived terms

• Warschaupact

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacte, from Latin pactum.

Noun

pact n (plural pacte)

1. pact

Declension

Declension of pact

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pact	pactul		pacte	pactele
genitive-dative	pact	pactului		pacte	pactelor
vocative	pactule			pactelor