paid

English

Alternative forms

• payed (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: pād, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /peɪd/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pæɪd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ped/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /peid/
• (North India) IPA^(key): /peɖ/
• (South India) IPA^(key): /pɛjɖ/, /pe(j)ɖ/
• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: payed

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English pay

English -ed

English paid

From pay + -ed.

Verb

paid

1. simple past and past participle of pay

Derived terms

• all expenses paid
• all-expenses-paid
• best-paid
• better-paid
• bought and paid for
• high-paid
• lowest-paid
• low-paid
• nonpaid
• paid-in
• paid-up
• paid up
• postpaid
• post-paid
• put paid to
• short-paid
• taxpaid
• underpaid
• unpaid
• well-paid

Etymology 2

From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay +‎ -ed.

Adjective

paid (not comparable)

1. Not free of charge; costing money.

   Synonyms: nonfree, for-pay

   Antonyms: free, gratis

   paid service

2. Receiving pay.

   paid worker

3. For which pay is given.

   paid holiday

4. (slang) Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).

   I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.

Translations

not free of charge — see also nonfree

• Hindi: सशुल्क (saśulk)
• Portuguese: pago (pt) m
• Spanish: de pago (es)

receiving pay

• Portuguese: pago (pt) m
• Spanish: pagado (es), remunerado (es), con sueldo, salarial (es)

for which pay is given

• Portuguese: pago (pt) m
• Spanish: pagado (es), remunerado (es), con sueldo, salarial (es)

Anagrams

• DIPA, iPad, Dipa, PADI, padi, adip-, apid, diap., diap, AIDP

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *paita, from Proto-Germanic *paidō.

Noun

paid

1. shirt

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *paita, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *paidō.

Noun

paid

1. (men's) shirt

Declension

Inflection of paid (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	paid
genitive sing.	paidan
partitive sing.	paidad
partitive plur.	paidoid
	singular	plural
nominative	paid	paidad
accusative	paidan	paidad
genitive	paidan	paidoiden
partitive	paidad	paidoid
essive-instructive	paidan	paidoin
translative	paidaks	paidoikš
inessive	paidas	paidoiš
elative	paidaspäi	paidoišpäi
illative	paidaha	paidoihe
adessive	paidal	paidoil
ablative	paidalpäi	paidoilpäi
allative	paidale	paidoile
abessive	paidata	paidoita
comitative	paidanke	paidoidenke
prolative	paidadme	paidoidme
approximative I	paidanno	paidoidenno
approximative II	paidannoks	paidoidennoks
egressive	paidannopäi	paidoidennopäi
terminative I	paidahasai	paidoihesai
terminative II	paidalesai	paidoilesai
terminative III	paidassai	—
additive I	paidahapäi	paidoihepäi
additive II	paidalepäi	paidoilepäi

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pai̯d/
• Rhymes: -ai̯d

Verb

paid

1. inflection of peidio:
   1. third-person singular present indicative/future literary
   2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of paid

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
paid	baid	mhaid	phaid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.