paise

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪseɪ/

paise

1. plural of paisa

• IPA^(key): /peɪz/

paise (plural paises)

1. Obsolete form of poise.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book XII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Amongst the high munition heap, a mighty marble stone
     Lay highest, near the pinnacle, a stone of such a paise
     That one of this time's strongest men with both hands could not raise.

     The spelling has been modernized.

• “paise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Aspie, aspie, sepia

From Proto-Finnic *paisëk.

paise (genitive paise, partitive paiset)

1. abscess

From Proto-Finnic *paisëk. Equivalent to pais- (“to swell”) +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑi̯seˣ/, [ˈpɑ̝i̯s̠e̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑise
• Hyphenation^(key): pai‧se

paise

1. (pathology) abscess, boil
2. (pathology, colloquial) bubo

• (abscess): absessi, märkäpesäke
• (bubo): imusolmukeajos

• “paise”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03