payer

• payor

From pay + -er (“subject of action”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)

payer (plural payers)

1. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

   The company is the largest tax payer in the region.

   Health insurance depends on both the payer and the provider.

2. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.

• payee

• Peary, apery, peary, praye, rapey, repay

Inherited from Middle French payer, from Old French paiier, paier, from Latin pacāre (“pacify”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.je/ ~ /pe.je/

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payer

1. (transitive) to pay (for)

   payer une amende ― pay a fine

   payer un service ― pay for a service

2. (transitive) to pay (someone)

   payer la caissière ― pay the cashier

   Il m'a payé 3 euros. ― He paid me 3 euros.

3. (transitive) to buy (something)

   Nous payons les courses. ― We're buying the groceries.

4. pay for (suffer the consequences of something)

   Tu vas payer pour ce que tu as fait à ma sœur. ― You're going to pay for what you did to my sister.

5. to pay off (to be fruitful)

   Mes efforts ont payé. ― My efforts paid off.

This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer), the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer's preference).

• paix

• Haitian Creole: peye

• “payer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old French paiier.

payer

1. to pay

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: payer

• payi (Jersey)

From Old French paiier, from Latin pācō, pācāre (“make peaceful, pacify, quiet, soothe; subdue”), from pāx (“peace”).

payer

1. (Guernsey) to pay