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width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></div></a></div><div class="relative flex w-full p-3 flex-auto flex-col place-content-inherit align-items-inherit h-auto break-words text-left overflow-y-auto subpixel-antialiased px-4 pt-2 pb-2 lg:px-6 lg:pt-2 lg:pb-4"><section class="prose lg:prose-lg dark:prose-dark [&_em]:bg-warning/30 dark:[&_em]:bg-warning/30"><p>sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, descended from the Greek <i class="foreign notranslate">pi</i>; the form of it is a pi with the second limb curved around to meet the first. A rare letter in the initial position in Germanic, in part because by Grimm's Law PIE <i class="foreign notranslate">p-</i> became Germanic <i class="foreign notranslate">f-</i>; even including the early Latin borrowings in Old English, "P" has only a little over 4 pages in J.R. Clark Hall's "Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary," compared to 31 pages for <i class="foreign notranslate">B</i> and more than 36 for <i class="foreign notranslate">F</i>. But it now is the third-most-common initial letter in the English vocabulary, and with <i class="foreign notranslate">C</i> and <i class="foreign notranslate">S</i> comprises nearly a third of the dictionary, a testimony to the flood of words that have entered the language since 1066 from Latin, Greek, and French, especially those in <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pre- " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pre-">pre-</a> and <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pro- " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pro-">pro-</a>.</p> <p>Between <i class="foreign notranslate">-m-</i> and another consonant, an unetymological <i class="foreign notranslate">-p-</i> sometimes is inserted (<i class="foreign notranslate">Hampstead</i>, <i class="foreign notranslate">Thompson</i>) to indicate that the <i class="foreign notranslate">-m-</i> is sounded as in words such as <i class="foreign notranslate">Simpson</i>. To <i class="foreign notranslate"><strong>mind one's Ps and Qs</strong></i> (1779), possibly is from confusion of these letters among children learning to write. Another theory traces it to old-time tavern-keepers tracking their patrons' bar tabs in <i class="foreign notranslate">pints</i> and <i class="foreign notranslate">quarts</i>. But see also <i class="foreign notranslate">to be P and Q</i> (1610s), "to be excellent," a slang or provincial phrase said to derive from <i class="foreign notranslate">prime quality</i>.</p> <p><i class="foreign notranslate"><strong>P-wave</strong></i> is from 1908 in geology, the <i class="foreign notranslate">p</i> representing <i class="foreign notranslate">primary</i> (adj.). The U.S. Navy World War II <i class="foreign notranslate"><strong>PT</strong></i> boat (1942) stands for <i class="foreign notranslate">patrol torpedo</i>.</p></section><div class="mt-4 w-full"><div class="inline-block group"><a title="Origin and meaning of P" class="link text-primary font-sans inline-flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-primary no-underline" href="/word/P"><span>Related entries & more</span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 text-spanish-gray flex-shrink-0 self-center text-2xl transition-colors group-hover:text-primary hover:text-primary" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></a><div class="border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-primary"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="space-y-2 w-full"><div class="relative"><span class="text-sm font-sans text-spanish-gray 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Used in forming names for types of dances, such as <i class="foreign notranslate">pas de deux</i> "dance for two persons" (1762).</p></section><div class="mt-4 w-full"><div class="inline-block group"><a title="Origin and meaning of pas" class="link text-primary font-sans inline-flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-primary no-underline" href="/word/pas"><span>Related entries & more</span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 text-spanish-gray flex-shrink-0 self-center text-2xl transition-colors group-hover:text-primary hover:text-primary" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></a><div class="border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-primary"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="space-y-10"><div class="flex flex-col relative overflow-hidden h-auto text-foreground box-border 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d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></div></a></div><div class="relative flex w-full p-3 flex-auto flex-col place-content-inherit align-items-inherit h-auto break-words text-left overflow-y-auto subpixel-antialiased px-4 pt-2 pb-2 lg:px-6 lg:pt-2 lg:pb-4"><section class="prose lg:prose-lg dark:prose-dark [&_em]:bg-warning/30 dark:[&_em]:bg-warning/30"><p><i class="foreign notranslate">*p膩-</i>, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to protect, feed."</p> <p>It forms all or part of: <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of antipasto " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/antipasto">antipasto</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of appanage " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/appanage">appanage</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of bannock " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/bannock">bannock</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and 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notranslate text-primary" href="/word/foray">foray</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of foster " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/foster">foster</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of fur " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/fur">fur</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of furrier " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/furrier">furrier</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of impanate " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/impanate">impanate</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pabulum " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pabulum">pabulum</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of panatela " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/panatela">panatela</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of panic " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/panic#etymonline_v_3076">panic</a> (n.2) "type of grass;" <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pannier " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pannier">pannier</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of panocha " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/panocha">panocha</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pantry " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pantry">pantry</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pastern " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pastern">pastern</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pastor " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pastor">pastor</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pasture " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pasture">pasture</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pester " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/pester">pester</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of repast " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/repast">repast</a>; <a title="Etymology, meaning and definition of satrap " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/satrap">satrap</a>.</p> <p>It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek <i class="foreign notranslate">pateisthai</i> "to feed;" Latin <i class="foreign notranslate">pabulum</i> "food, fodder," <i class="foreign notranslate">panis</i> "bread," <i class="foreign notranslate">pasci</i> "to feed," <i class="foreign notranslate">pascare</i> "to graze, pasture, feed," <i class="foreign notranslate">pastor</i> "shepherd," literally "feeder;" Avestan <i class="foreign notranslate">pitu-</i> "food;" Old Church Slavonic <i class="foreign notranslate">pasti</i> "feed cattle, pasture;" Russian <i class="foreign notranslate">pishcha</i> "food;" Old English <i 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w-full justify-start items-center shrink-0 overflow-inherit color-inherit subpixel-antialiased rounded-t-large px-4 pt-2 pb-0 lg:px-6 lg:pt-4 lg:pb-2"><a title="Origin and meaning of pabulum" class="w-full group" href="/word/pabulum"><div class="flex items-center justify-between border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-secondary transition-colors"><span id="#2955" class="scroll-m-16 text-2xl font-serif font-bold text-foreground text-primary dark:text-default-100 text-xl"><span class="hyphens-auto" lang="en">pabulum</span><span class="pl-2 text-battleship-gray font-serif">(n.)</span></span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 lg:w-6 lg:h-6 text-spanish-gray group-hover:text-primary transition-colors ml-2 lg:ml-4 flex-shrink-0 self-center text-xl lg:text-2xl" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></div></a></div><div class="relative flex w-full p-3 flex-auto flex-col place-content-inherit align-items-inherit h-auto break-words text-left overflow-y-auto subpixel-antialiased px-4 pt-2 pb-2 lg:px-6 lg:pt-2 lg:pb-4"><section class="prose lg:prose-lg dark:prose-dark [&_em]:bg-warning/30 dark:[&_em]:bg-warning/30"><p>"food" for anything, "food" in its widest sense, "that which nourishes an animal or vegetable," 1670s, from Latin <i class="foreign notranslate">pabulum</i> "fodder, food, nourishment," from PIE root <a rel="nofollow" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *pa- " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/*pa-">*pa-</a> "to feed" + instrumentive suffix <i class="foreign notranslate">*-dhlom</i>. Related <i class="foreign notranslate">Pabular; pabulary</i>. Blount's "Glossographia"聽(1656) has <i class="foreign notranslate">pabulous</i> "pertaining to Fodder, Provender, Forrage, or meat for Beasts."</p> <p><strong><i class="foreign notranslate">Pablum</i></strong> (1932), derived from this, is a trademark (Mead Johnson & Co.) for a soft, bland cereal used as a food for infants and weak and invalid persons, hence its figurative use (attested from 1970, first by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew) in reference to "mushy" political prose.</p></section><div class="mt-4 w-full"><div class="inline-block group"><a title="Origin and meaning of pabulum" class="link text-primary font-sans inline-flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-primary no-underline" href="/word/pabulum"><span>Related entries & more</span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 text-spanish-gray flex-shrink-0 self-center text-2xl transition-colors group-hover:text-primary hover:text-primary" height="1em" width="1em" 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class="flex items-center justify-between border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-secondary transition-colors"><span id="#2956" class="scroll-m-16 text-2xl font-serif font-bold text-foreground text-primary dark:text-default-100 text-xl"><span class="hyphens-auto" lang="en">paca</span><span class="pl-2 text-battleship-gray font-serif">(n.)</span></span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 lg:w-6 lg:h-6 text-spanish-gray group-hover:text-primary transition-colors ml-2 lg:ml-4 flex-shrink-0 self-center text-xl lg:text-2xl" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></div></a></div><div class="relative flex w-full p-3 flex-auto flex-col place-content-inherit align-items-inherit h-auto break-words text-left overflow-y-auto subpixel-antialiased px-4 pt-2 pb-2 lg:px-6 lg:pt-2 lg:pb-4"><section class="prose lg:prose-lg dark:prose-dark [&_em]:bg-warning/30 dark:[&_em]:bg-warning/30"><p>large rodent of Central and South America, 1650s, from Spanish, from Tupi (Brazil) <i class="foreign notranslate">paca</i>, the native name for it.</p></section><div class="mt-4 w-full"><div class="inline-block group"><a title="Origin and meaning of paca" class="link text-primary font-sans inline-flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-primary no-underline" href="/word/paca"><span>Related entries & more</span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 text-spanish-gray flex-shrink-0 self-center text-2xl transition-colors group-hover:text-primary hover:text-primary" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></a><div class="border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-primary"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="space-y-10"><div class="flex flex-col relative overflow-hidden h-auto text-foreground box-border outline-none data-[focus-visible=true]:z-10 data-[focus-visible=true]:outline-2 data-[focus-visible=true]:outline-focus data-[focus-visible=true]:outline-offset-2 transition-transform-background motion-reduce:transition-none border border-secondary hover:shadow-sm rounded-md shadow-sm transition-all bg-secondary/30 dark:bg-overlay hover:bg-secondary/10" tabindex="-1"><div class="flex p-3 z-10 w-full justify-start items-center shrink-0 overflow-inherit color-inherit subpixel-antialiased rounded-t-large px-4 pt-2 pb-0 lg:px-6 lg:pt-4 lg:pb-2"><a title="Origin and meaning of pace" class="w-full group" href="/word/pace"><div class="flex items-center justify-between border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-secondary transition-colors"><span id="#2957" class="scroll-m-16 text-2xl font-serif font-bold text-foreground text-primary dark:text-default-100 text-xl"><span class="hyphens-auto" lang="en">pace</span><span class="pl-2 text-battleship-gray font-serif">(n.)</span></span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 lg:w-6 lg:h-6 text-spanish-gray group-hover:text-primary transition-colors ml-2 lg:ml-4 flex-shrink-0 self-center text-xl lg:text-2xl" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></div></a></div><div class="relative flex w-full p-3 flex-auto flex-col place-content-inherit align-items-inherit h-auto break-words text-left overflow-y-auto subpixel-antialiased px-4 pt-2 pb-2 lg:px-6 lg:pt-2 lg:pb-4"><section class="prose lg:prose-lg dark:prose-dark [&_em]:bg-warning/30 dark:[&_em]:bg-warning/30"><p>late 13c., "a step in walking," also "rate of motion; the space traveled by the foot in one completed movement in walking," from Old French <i class="foreign notranslate">pas</i> "a step, pace, trace," and directly from Latin <i class="foreign notranslate">passus</i>, <i class="foreign notranslate">passum</i> "a step, pace, stride," noun use of past participle of <i class="foreign notranslate">pandere</i> "to stretch (the leg), spread out," probably from PIE <i class="foreign notranslate">*pat-no-</i>, nasalized variant form of root <a rel="nofollow" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *pete- " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/*pete-">*pete-</a> "to spread."</p> <p>It also was, from late 14c., a lineal measurement of vague and variable extent, representing the space naturally traversed by the adult human foot in walking. In some places and situations it was reckoned as the distance from the place where either foot is taken up, in walking, to that where the same foot is set down again (a <i class="foreign notranslate">great pace</i>), usually 5 feet or a little less. The pace of a single step (<i class="foreign notranslate">military pace</i>) is about 2.5 feet.</p> <p>To <i class="foreign notranslate"><strong>keep pace</strong></i> (with) "maintain the same speed, advance at an equal rate" is from 1580s. <i class="foreign notranslate"><strong>Pace-setter</strong></i> "one who establishes trends in fashion," is by 1895; it also had literal meanings.</p> <blockquote> It is customary for the contractor to employ some expert as a pace setter. A man who can thin an acre of beets a day commands as high as $2.00 per day as a pace setter. The other employees are paid in the proportion their work bears to that of the pace setter. The weak, lazy and unskillful get the smallest wage. Besides that the contractor runs a commissary department and feeds the gang. They sleep in tents or in the shade of trees near where they work. [report on Oxnard, Calif., beet harvesting in "The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer," May 13, 1899]聽 </blockquote></section><div class="mt-4 w-full"><div class="inline-block group"><a title="Origin and meaning of pace" class="link text-primary font-sans inline-flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-primary no-underline" href="/word/pace"><span>Related entries & more</span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 text-spanish-gray flex-shrink-0 self-center text-2xl transition-colors group-hover:text-primary hover:text-primary" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></a><div class="border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-primary"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="space-y-2 w-full"><div class="relative"><span class="text-sm font-sans text-spanish-gray absolute -mt-6">Advertisement</span><div class="relative min-h-[90px] w-full"><div class="relative z-10 min-h-[90px] w-full flex items-center justify-center"><div id="div-gpt-ad-pc_sp_infeed_fluid" class="flex adsbygoogle items-center transition-all min-h-[90px]"><div class="w-full p-4 rounded-md min-w-[300px] items-center justify-center flex w-full h-full bg-secondary/50"><p class="text-foreground/80 text-center">Want to remove ads? <a class="text-primary hover:underline cursor-pointer" rel="nofollow" href="#">Log in</a> to see fewer ads, and become a <a class="text-primary hover:underline cursor-pointer" rel="nofollow" href="#">Premium Member</a> to remove all ads.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="space-y-10"><div class="flex flex-col relative overflow-hidden h-auto text-foreground box-border outline-none data-[focus-visible=true]:z-10 data-[focus-visible=true]:outline-2 data-[focus-visible=true]:outline-focus data-[focus-visible=true]:outline-offset-2 transition-transform-background motion-reduce:transition-none border border-secondary hover:shadow-sm rounded-md shadow-sm transition-all bg-secondary/30 dark:bg-overlay hover:bg-secondary/10" tabindex="-1"><div class="flex p-3 z-10 w-full justify-start items-center shrink-0 overflow-inherit color-inherit subpixel-antialiased rounded-t-large px-4 pt-2 pb-0 lg:px-6 lg:pt-4 lg:pb-2"><a title="Origin and meaning of pace" class="w-full group" href="/word/pace"><div class="flex items-center justify-between border-b border-transparent group-hover:border-secondary transition-colors"><span id="#2958" class="scroll-m-16 text-2xl font-serif font-bold text-foreground text-primary dark:text-default-100 text-xl"><span class="hyphens-auto" lang="en">pace</span><span class="pl-2 text-battleship-gray font-serif">(prep.)</span></span><svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="w-6 h-6 lg:w-6 lg:h-6 text-spanish-gray group-hover:text-primary transition-colors ml-2 lg:ml-4 flex-shrink-0 self-center text-xl lg:text-2xl" height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z"></path><path d="M10 6 8.59 7.41 13.17 12l-4.58 4.59L10 18l6-6z"></path></svg></div></a></div><div class="relative flex w-full p-3 flex-auto flex-col place-content-inherit align-items-inherit h-auto break-words text-left overflow-y-auto subpixel-antialiased px-4 pt-2 pb-2 lg:px-6 lg:pt-2 lg:pb-4"><section class="prose lg:prose-lg dark:prose-dark [&_em]:bg-warning/30 dark:[&_em]:bg-warning/30"><p>"with the leave of, by the permission of," 1863, from Latin <i class="foreign notranslate">pace</i>, ablative of <i class="foreign notranslate">pax</i> "peace," as in <i class="foreign notranslate">pace tua</i> "with all deference to you;" from PIE root <a rel="nofollow" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *pag- " class="crossreference notranslate text-primary" href="/word/*pag-">*pag-</a> "to fasten." 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A rare letter in the initial position in Germanic, in part because by Grimm's Law PIE \u003cspan class=\"foreign notranslate\"\u003ep-\u003c/span\u003e became Germanic \u003cspan class=\"foreign notranslate\"\u003ef-\u003c/span\u003e; even including the early Latin borrowings in Old English, \"P\" has only a little over 4 pages in J.R. Clark Hall's \"Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary,\" compared to 31 pages for \u003cspan class=\"foreign notranslate\"\u003eB\u003c/span\u003e and more than 36 for \u003cspan class=\"foreign notranslate\"\u003eF\u003c/span\u003e. 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