English

Noun

paries ‎(plural parietes)

1. The wall of any cavity in the body.
2. (zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

Translations

See also

• parietal

Anagrams

• aspire
• Persia
• praise
• spirea

Catalan

Verb

paries

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative form of parir

French

Verb

paries

1. second-person singular present indicative of parier
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of parier

Anagrams

• aspire, aspiré, paires, repais

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European root shared by Old Icelandic sparri ‎(“wall”), Old High German sparro, Russian у-пере́ть ‎(u-perétʹ, “to support, prop up”), and Old Church Slavonic прет ‎(pret).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ri.eːs/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ri.es/, [ˈpaː.ri.es]

Noun

pariēs m ‎(genitive parietis); third declension

1. The wall of a house or room.

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• parietālis
• parietārius
• parietīnus

Descendants

Verb

pariēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of pariō

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “paries”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)
    
• 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

1. ↑ Schrijver, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin, p. 293