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PAI
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English
English : nickname for a person known for his skill at patching up quarrels, from Middle English make(n) ‘to make’ (Old English macian) + pais ‘peace’ (see Pace).
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English
Scottish surname transferred to unisex forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic PÃ islig, possibly derived from Late Latin basilica, PAISLEY means "church."
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English
English : habitational name from Paignton in Devon, named with the Old English personal name Pǣga (genitive Pǣgan) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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English
English : from Middle English halfmark ‘half a mark’, probably a nickname or status name for someone who paid this sum in rent.
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English
English : from Middle English, Old French peinto(u)r, oblique case of peintre ‘painter’, hence an occupational name for a painter (normally of colored glass). In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in central and southern England.German : topographic name for someone living in a fenced enclosure (see Bainter).
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Greek
(Παίων) Greek name PAION means "healer." In mythology, this is the name of a physician god.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Kent and Sussex)
English (mainly Kent and Sussex) : from the Middle English personal name Pain(e), Payn(e) (Old French Paien, from Latin Paganus), introduced to Britain by the Normans. The Latin name is a derivative of pagus ‘outlying village’, and meant at first a person who lived in the country (as opposed to Urbanus ‘city dweller’), then a civilian as opposed to a soldier, and eventually a heathen (one not enrolled in the army of Christ). This remained a popular name throughout the Middle Ages, but it died out in the 16th century.Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of the Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The author of the republican treatise The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1737–1809), left England for North America in the mid 1770s, where he became involved in the movement that led to independence. His pamphlet of 1776, Common Sense, influenced the Declaration of Independence and furnished some of the arguments justifying it.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Middle High German mezzer ‘knife’, from Old High German mezzirahs, mezzisahs, a compound of maz ‘food’, ‘meat’ + sahs ‘knife’, ‘sword’. The Jewish name is from German Messer ‘knife’ or Yiddish meser.German : occupational name for an official in charge of measuring the dues paid in kind by tenants, from an agent derivative of Middle High German mezzen ‘to measure’.English and Scottish : occupational name for someone who kept watch over harvested crops, Middle English, Older Scots mess(i)er, from Old French messier (see Messier).
Female
English
Feminine form of English unisex Page, PAIGE means "page; young servant."
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : occupational name for a maker of helmets, from the adopted Old French term he(a)umier, from he(a)ume ‘helmet’, of Germanic origin. Compare Helm 2.English : variant of Holmer.Americanized form of the Greek family name Homiros or one of its patronymic derivatives (Homirou, Homiridis, etc.). This was not only the name of the ancient Greek epic poet (classical Greek Homēros), but was also borne by a martyr venerated in the Greek Orthodox Church.Slovenian : topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, from hom (dialect form of holm ‘hill’, ‘height’) + the German suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.The American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was of old New England stock dating back to Captain John Homer, an Englishman who crossed the Atlantic in his own ship and settled in Boston about 1636.
Female
English
Scottish surname transferred to unisex forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic PÃ islig, possibly PAISLEY means "church."
Male
Greek
(Παιάν) Variant spelling of Greek Paion, PAIAN means "healer."Â
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Kit, a pet form of Christopher.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of wooden tubs and pails made of staves held together by a hoop, Middle English kitte.English : perhaps from Middle High German kīt ‘offshoot’, ‘sprout’, applied as a nickname for a junior member of a family; alternatively it may be from the old personal name Giddo.
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German
German : habitational name from any of several places so named, for example in Westphalia and Switzerland.German : nickname from Middle High German heiden ‘heathen’, Old High German heidano, apparently a derivative of heida ‘heath’, modeled on Latin paganus (see Pain 1). The nickname was sometimes used to refer to a Christian knight who had been on a Crusade to fight in the Holy Land.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; possibly a shortened form of any of various ornamental names formed with German Heide- ‘heath’, for example Heidenberg, Heidenkorn, Heidenkrug, Heidenwurzel.English : variant spelling of Hayden.Dutch : shortened form of vanderHeiden.
Male
Irish
Pet form of Irish Gaelic Pádraig, PAIDà means "patrician; of noble birth."
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called. The final syllable represents Old English tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The first element has a wide variety of possible origins. In the case of three examples in Lincolnshire it is Old English hÅh ‘spur of a hill’; for places in Oxfordshire and Somerset it is Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’; for one in Dorset it may be Old English holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ or holt ‘small wood’; for a further pair in Suffolk it may be hola, genitive plural of holh ‘hollow’, but more probably a personal name HÅla.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name, Kin, Kinna, which is a shortened form of any of various Old English names beginning with Cyne ‘royal’, for example Cynesige (see Kinsey).Dutch : nickname for someone with a pointed or jutting chin.Dutch : from Middle Dutch kinne ‘kin’.Hungarian : nickname from kÃn ‘pain’.Variant of Korean Kim.
Male
English
Short form of English unisex Paisley, PAISE means "church."Â
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English
English : habitational name from a pair of villages in Cheshire, on either side of the Weaver river, recorded in Domesday Book as Maneshale, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Mann + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English Hocedei, Hokedey ‘Hock-day’, the second Tuesday after Easter. This was formerly a time at which rents and dues were paid, and from the 14th century it was a popular festival. The name possibly denoted someone born at this time of year.
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n.
A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
a.
Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
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Not capable of being painted or described.
imp. & p. p.
of Pair
v. i.
See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
n.
The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
n.
Color laid on; paint.
n.
The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
n.
Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
v. t.
To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
n.
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
v. i.
Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
v. t.
The art of painting.
n.
The state or position of being a painter.
v. i.
The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.
n.
Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pair
pl.
of Pair
n.
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
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Like a painter's work.