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)
- The wall of any cavity in the body.
- (zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
Related terms
- parietal
Translations
wall of any cavity in the body
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Anagrams
- Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, aspire, paires, praise, spirea
Catalan
Verb
paries
- second-person singular imperfect indicative form of parir
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
paries
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of parier
Anagrams
- aspire, aspiré, paires, repais
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ri.eːs/, [ˈpärieːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ri.es/, [ˈpäːries]
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
- 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
- parietālis
- parietārius
- parietīnus
Descendants
- Albanian: paret
- Aragonese: paret
- Asturian: parede, paré
- → Basque: pareta
- Catalan: paret
- Old French: pareit
- French: paroi
- → English: paries
- Friulian: parêt, parêd
- Istro-Romanian: parete
- Italian: parete
- Leonese: parede
- Occitan: pared
- Old Portuguese: parede
- Galician: parede
- Portuguese: parede
- Romanian: perete
- Romansch: paraid, preit, pare
- Sardinian: parada, parata
- Spanish: pared
- Venetian: paréde
- → Welsh: pared
References
- 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)
- to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere
- “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
- second-person singular future active indicative of pariō