paix

paix

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

Inherited from Old French pais, paiz, from Latin pāx (“peace”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, to attach”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ/

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• Homophones: paie, paient, paies, pais, paît, pet, pets

paix f (invariable)

1. peace

• pacifique
• paisible
• payer

• “paix”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French paix (“peace”).

paix

1. to quiet
2. to be quiet

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales