Etymograph

English

pas

Pas comes from French pas ‘step, pace, footstep’, and goes back to Latin passus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpassus
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400pas‘pace’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentpas‘step, pace, footstep’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1792pas

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpassus
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400pas‘pace’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentpas‘step, pace, footstep’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1792pas

Earliest quotation: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond: “‘Nobody of any elegance of manners can exist, where…”.

Linked words

through Latin passus

mile, pass, pace, 12 more

Today it means

noun The right of going foremost; precedence.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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