payとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native 古期英語 ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.

動詞

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (廃れた用法) payed)

1. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

   he paid him to clean the place up

   he paid her off the books and in kind where possible

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

     Admiral Hackett: You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay him to charge the enemy. But you can't pay him to believe.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

   she offered to pay the bill

   he has paid his debt to society

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 37:21:

     The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎^[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:

     The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

3. (transitive) To be profitable for.

   It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.

4. (transitive) To give (something else than money).

   to pay attention

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     not paying me a welcome

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

5. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.

   crime doesn’t pay

   it will pay to wait

6. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.

   He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.

7. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.

   He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.

8. (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

   I'll pay that.

   • 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:

     Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'

Conjugation

上位語

• (to give money): compensate

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: paysa
• → Scottish Gaelic: pàigh

名詞

pay (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pays)

1. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

   Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

派生語

形容詞

pay (not comparable)

1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.

   pay toilet

2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.

語源 2

Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to pitch”).

動詞

pay (三人称単数 現在形 pays, 現在分詞 paying, 過去形および過去分詞形 payed)

1. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

Further reading

• pay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• pay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• pay at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• APY, Yap, pya, yap