Noun: pas
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pas |
| Plural m | passos |
Sample Sentences
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pas zebra (zebra crossing)
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ritu de pas (rite of passage)
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pas de rosca (screw pitch)
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pas polar (polar pitch)
Nouns inflected like pas
dijous gras,
fos,
mos,
cos,
nas,
pas,
ves,
ses,
gros,
bres,
tros,
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan pas, from Latin passus (“step”). Its use as an auxiliary adverb comes from an accusative use (Latin nec…passum) in negative constructions – literally ‘not…a step’, i.e. ‘not at all’ – originally used with certain verbs of motion. Compare similarly used French pas. Cognate with Galician and Spanish paso and Portuguese passo. See: Latin Nouns '
passus', French Nouns '
pas', Portuguese Nouns '
passo'.
Verbs referencing "pas"
Galician Nouns
paso, Spanish Nouns
paso, Portuguese Nouns
passo.
Translations