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From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”).[1][2] Probably a doublet of patio.
pact (plural pacts)
- An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pact
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New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members. - (international law) An agreement between two or more nations
- (military) An alliance or coalition.
an agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant
- Albanian: pakt (sq) m
- Arabic: مُعَاهَدَة (ar) f (muʕāhada), مِيثَاق m (mīṯāq), حِلْف m (ḥilf), مُقَاوَلَة f (muqāwala)
- Armenian: պայմանագիր (hy) (paymanagir)
- Azerbaijani: müqavilə (az)
- Belarusian: пакт m (pakt)
- Bulgarian: пакт (bg) m (pakt)
- Catalan: pacte (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 協議 / 协议 (zh) (xiéyì), 協定 / 协定 (zh) (xiédìng), 條約 / 条约 (zh) (tiáoyuē), 契約 / 契约 (zh) (qìyuē) - Czech: pakt (cs) m
- Danish: pagt c
- Dutch: pact (nl) n
- Estonian: pakt (et)
- Finnish: sopimus (fi)
- French: pacte (fr) m
- Galician: pauto m
- Georgian: პაქტი (ṗakṭi)
- German: Pakt (de) m, Vertrag (de) m
- Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía), σύμφωνο (el) n (sýmfono)
- Hindi: सन्धि (hi) f (sandhi)
- Hungarian: megállapodás (hu), egyezmény (hu)
- Italian: patto (it) m
- Japanese: 協定 (ja) (きょうてい, kyōtei), 条約 (ja) (じょうやく, jōyaku)
- Kazakh: пакт (pakt), келісім (kelısım)
- Khmer: កតិកាសញ្ញា (km) (kaʼtekaa saññaa), អនុសញ្ញា (km) (ʼaʼnusaññaa), សន្ធិសញ្ញា (km) (sɑnthisaññaa)
- Korean: 협정(協定) (hyeopjeong), 조약(條約) (ko) (joyak), 계약(契約) (ko) (gyeyak)
- Kyrgyz: пакт (pakt)
- Lao: ສົນທິສັນຍາ (lo) (son thi san nyā), ອະນຸສັນຍາ (ʼa nu san nyā)
- Latin: pactiō f, pactum n
- Latvian: pakts m
- Lithuanian: paktas (lt) m
- Macedonian: пакт m (pakt)
- Malay: pakatan (ms)
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: pakt (no) m or f
Nynorsk: pakt f - Odia: ଚୁକ୍ତି (or) (cukti)
- Persian:
Iranian Persian: پِیْمان (peymân), مُعاهَدِه (mo'âhade), مُقاوَلِه (moġâvale) - Polish: układ (pl) m, pakt (pl) m
- Portuguese: pacto (pt) m
- Romanian: pact (ro) n
Cyrillic: пакт n (pact) - Russian: пакт (ru) m (pakt), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏кт m
Latin: pȁkt (sh) m - Slovak: pakt m
- Slovene: pakt m, dogovor m
- Spanish: pacto (es) m
- Swahili: agano (sw)
- Swedish: pakt (sv)
- Tajik: паймон (paymon), муоҳида (muohida), пакт (pakt), аҳднома (ahdnoma), шартнома (šartnoma)
- Tamil: உடன்படிக்கை (ta) (uṭaṉpaṭikkai)
- Thai: ข้อตกลง (kɔ̂ɔ-dtòk-long) (law), อนุสัญญา (à-nú-sǎn-yaa), สนธิสัญญา (sǒn-tí-sǎn-yaa)
- Turkish: antlaşma (tr), mukavele (tr)
- Ukrainian: пакт m (pakt)
- Urdu: مُعاہَدَہ m (mu'āhada), پَیمان m (paimān), عَہْد نامَہ m ('ahd nāma)
- Uyghur: شەرتنامە (shertname)
- Uzbek: pakt (uz), shartnoma (uz)
- Vietnamese: điều ước (vi) (條約), hiệp ước (vi) (協約)
an agreement between two or more nations
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 公約 / 公约 (zh) (gōngyuē), 條約 / 条约 (zh) (tiáoyuē) - Czech: pakt (cs) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sopimus (fi)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: pakt (pl) m, układ (pl) m
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: пакт (ru) m (pakt), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: உடன்படிக்கை (ta) (uṭaṉpaṭikkai)
- Thai: กติกาสัญญา (gà-dtì-gaa-sǎn-yaa)
- Turkish: antant (tr), pakt (tr)
- Ukrainian: пакт m (pakt)
(military) an alliance or coalition
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 同盟 (zh) (tóngméng), 聯盟 / 联盟 (zh) (liánméng) - Finnish: liittouma (fi)
- French: please add this translation if you can
pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)
- (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
- 1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129:
When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.
- 1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129:
agree formally
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 達成協議 / 达成协议 (dáchéng xiéyì) - Finnish: sopia (fi)
- French: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: pactar (es), paccionar (es)
- ^ “pact(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “pact, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “pact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Capt, Capt., P.C.A.T., PCAT, PTCA, TCAP, capt
From French pacte, from Latin pactum. Doublet of pacht and patio.
pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)
Borrowed from French pacte, from Latin pactum.
pact n (plural pacte)