Wordiyopay
Old FrenchVariants
pay
Related Roots
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About This Root
From Old French paier, ultimately from Latin pācāre (to pacify, appease) — paying a debt originally meant 'making peace' with a creditor. Produces pay, payment, payable, payoff, and repay. The etymological link between payment and peace reveals how settling debts was seen as restoring social harmony.
Associated Words
pay
to give money for something; wages received for work
NGSL 1kIELTSA1
payable
Due to be paid (adj.); debts owed by a business (n.)
IELTSA1
payment
The act of paying; a sum of money paid for goods or services
NGSL 2kIELTSTOEFL
payoff
A reward or result of an action; a bribe; final debt repayment
C2
repay
To pay back money owed; to reward or recompense someone
B1