paries

See also: pariés, paríes, Paries, and Pariès

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pariēs (wall of a house or room). Compare French paroi (wall), Italian parete (wall), Portuguese parede (wall) Spanish pared (wall) and Romanian perete (wall).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæɹi.iːz/, /ˈpɛəɹi.iːz/, /ˈpɛəɹiːz/

Noun

paries (plural parietes)

  1. The wall of any cavity in the body.
  2. (zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

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Catalan

Verb

paries

  1. second-person singular imperfect indicative form of parir

French

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

paries

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of parier

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Old Norse sparri (wall), Old High German sparro, Russian у-пере́ть (u-perétʹ, to support, to prop up), and Old East Slavic пьрть (pĭrtĭ).[1]

Noun

pariēs m (genitive parietis); third declension

  1. the wall of a house or room
    Hypernym: mūrus
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pariēs parietēs
Genitive parietis parietum
Dative parietī parietibus
Accusative parietem parietēs
Ablative pariete parietibus
Vocative pariēs parietēs
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 293

Further reading

  • paries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paries in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • paries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere
    • within four walls: intra parietes (Brut. 8. 32)
  • paries”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paries”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Verb

pariēs

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of pariō
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