Noun: país
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pa‧ís
| Singular m | país |
| Plural m | países |
Sample Sentences
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Michael Wallace, deportado a Jamaica, su país de origen, padece epilepsia. (Michael Wallace, deported to Jamaica, his country of origin, suffers from epilepsy.) [2025 June 20, Randi Kaye and David von Blohn, “El ICE renueva acuerdo con el centro de detención que, según la agencia, no cumplía las normas”, in CNN en Español:]
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País Vasco (Basque Country)
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El País de las Maravillas (Wonderland)
Nouns inflected like país
ionizador,
serbal,
serial,
serpol,
serval,
depurador,
sector,
sentir,
sensor,
senior,
sauzal,
sartal,
safrol,
santol,
saibey,
salmer,
urunday,
definidor,
cristóbal,
superconductor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagēnsis, from Latin pāgus (“country”). Compare Sicilian pajisi, Italian paese. See: French Nouns '
pays', Latin Nouns '
pāgus', Italian Nouns '
paese'.
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