pois

See also: Pois, POIS, POIs, pôis, põis, and pȯis

English

Noun

pois

  1. plural of poi

Anagrams

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pois

Adverb

pois

  1. (of movement) away:
    Hän meni pois. ― S/he went away. (cf. poissa)

Inflection

Declension of pois
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative poikki- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive – –sublative – –
accusative – –lative pois –
inessive poissa –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive – –distributive – –
ablative – –temp. dist. – –
allative – –prolative poikki
(poikitse)		 –
essive – –situative poikittain –
translative – –oppositive – –
instructive – poikin
abessive – –
comitative – –

Compounds

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Old French pois, from earlier peis from Latin pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pwa/
  • audio(file)
  • Homophones: poids, poix

Noun

pois m (plural pois)

  1. pea

Derived terms

Further reading

Interlingua

Adverb

pois

  1. afterwards

Italian

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /puˈa/, /pwa/

Noun

pois m (invariable)

  1. polka dot

Anagrams

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea, from postus.

Adverb

pois

  1. then (indicating chronological order)
  2. since

Descendants

Etymology 2

From earlier peis, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

Alternative forms

Noun

pois m (oblique plural pois, nominative singular pois, nominative plural pois)

  1. weight

Descendants

Etymology 3

From Latin pīsum.

Alternative forms

Noun

pois m (plural)

  1. peas (pulses)
Usage notes

The singular pois may not be attested; attestations of "un pois" all seem to refer to other definitions of pois.

Descendants

Etymology 4

See poi

Adverb

pois

  1. Alternative form of poi (“little, not much”)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pos, from Latin post, or from Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔjs/

Adverb

pois

  1. then

Descendants

  • Old Catalan: puis, puixes
    • Catalan: puix
  • Occitan: puèi

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pois, from Vulgar Latin *pos, from Classical Latin post (“after”). Compare with French puis, Spanish pues, Italian poi, and Romanian apoi (from ad post).

Pronunciation

Adverb

pois (not comparable)

  1. so; then (in that case)
    Podemos, pois, terminá-lo.
    So we can finish it.
  2. emphasises a yes-or-no answer or an order
    Pois vai!
    Go!
    Pois sim.
    Indeed.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pois.

Conjunction

pois

  1. because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Gostei do livro, pois foi interessante.
    I liked the book, because it was interesting.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pois.

Synonyms

Derived terms

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