pace

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.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /peɪs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

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.[1] [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:

        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.]

pace (not comparable)

1. (cricket) Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls.

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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. To measure by walking.

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

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

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

Used when expressing a contrary opinion, in formal speech or writing.

Alteration of archaic Pasch.

IPA^(key): /peɪs/

pace (plural paces)

1. Easter.

• pace egg

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

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pace

1. peacefully

pace

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tse/

pace (uncountable)

1. peace

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡ʃe/

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• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Hyphenation: pà‧ce

pace f (plural paci)

1. peace

pace

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

   pace e amen ― peace be with you and amen

• cape

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

pāce f

1. ablative singular of pāx (“peace”)

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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pace

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡sɛ/

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• Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
• Syllabification: pa‧ce

pace m animal

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pac

pace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of paca

pace f

1. dative/locative singular of paka

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

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pace f (uncountable)

1. peace

   Antonym: război

• pașnic

• împăca

• liniște

pace

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

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

• IPA^(key): /piːs/
• Homophone: peece

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.

• 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