French–English dictionary

pastoureau

(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

pastourelle

(dated) A female shepherd.

pastrami

A seasoned smoked cut of beef, traditionally made from a navel cut.

PAT

(Quebec) Abbreviation of Pointe-aux-Trembles: a municipality of Quebec, Canada.

Patagonie

A geographical region in southern South America, including the southern parts of Chile and Argentina.

patate

(British, slang) A punch; a blow with the fist.

patauger

(intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful. [from 17th c.]

patch

(software development) A patch or change that fixes the unwanted behaviour caused by a bug.

patcher

(computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:

pâte

A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

pâté (de maisons)

A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

pâte à dents

A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

pâté de maison

The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

patelin

(idiomatic, usually, figurative) A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.

patelle

Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.

patène

(Christianity) The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist.

patente

A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.

patère

A protrusion used to hang things on.

paternaliser

(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

paternel

Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.

paterner

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

paternité

The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.

pâtes

(uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.

pâtes alimentaires

(uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.

pâteux

Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular.

pathétique

Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.

pathétiquement

In a pathetic manner; piteously.

pathogène

(pathology, immunology) An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.

pathologique

(medicine) Pertaining to pathology.

pathologiste

An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.

patiemment

In a patient manner.

patience

Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.

patient

(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

patient ambulatoire

(healthcare) A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.

patient hospitalier

(healthcare) A patient whose treatment requires at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.

patiente

A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.

patienter

(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

patin

The act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.

patinage

The act, or the sport, of skating on ice.

patine

(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

patiner

(intransitive, transitive) to skate on ice, wearing ice skates.

patineur

A person who skates.

patineuse

A person who skates.

patinoire

A specially frozen surface of water on which people skate or play ice hockey; the building that houses such a surface.

pâtir

(intransitive) To become worse.

pâtisserie

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

pâtissier

A manufacturer of or dealer in confections (sweets, candies, sweet pastries, and other sweet food items).

patois

Language unique to a particular group of people.

patouner

(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

pâtre

(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

Patrice

(countable) A en given name.

Patricia

A en given name.

patricien

(Ancient Rome) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.

Patrick

(countable) A en given name.

patrie

The country of one's ancestors.

patrimoine

The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]

Patriote

(Canada, historical) Synonym of Patriote (A devolution-of-power supporter in Lower Canada during the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838 (Patriots' War).)

patriotique

Inspired by or showing patriotism; done out of love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country

patriotisme

Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.

patrociner

(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

patron

(UK, Irish, chiefly, London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.

patron de bistro

(chiefly, UK, Irish) The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house.

patronage

(politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.

patronne de bistro

(chiefly, UK, Irish) The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house.

patronner

(transitive) To be a sponsor for.

patronyme

(Philippines) one's mother's maiden name

patte

In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.

pattes de mouche

(informal, idiom) Cramped or illegible handwriting.

pâturage

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

pâture

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

pâturer

(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

pâturin des prés

Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.

Pau

A city, the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

paua

(New Zealand) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.

paucal

(grammar) A language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular, dual, trial, and plural.

paucité

Fewness in number; too few.

Paule

A en given name.

Paulette

A en given name.

Pauline

A en given name.

paumé

(figurative, of a location) Desolate, boring and depressing.

paumer

To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.

paupérisme

The state of being a pauper; poverty.

paupière

(rare) The eyelid.

pause

(informal) A chance to catch one's breath.

pauser

(intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

pauvre

Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

pauvres

(with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

pauvreté

(uncountable) Poverty.

pavaner

(transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.

pavé

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

pavé de l'ours

The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.

pavé numérique

Ellipsis of keypad.

pavement

Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings.

paver

(transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.

paveur

One who paves; one who lays pavement.

paveuse

One who paves; one who lays pavement.

pavillon

Any prominent flag or banner.

pavillon de l’oreille

(anatomy, zoology) The visible part of the ear in most therians that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal.

pavillon de pirates

The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger).

pavillon-club

Any building used by a club for meetings or social activities.

pavois

(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.

pavoiser

(intransitive) To engage in peacocking, ostentatious dress or behaviour to impress women.

pavot

Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

pax

(informal, usually, in the plural) A passenger; passengers.

payant

(rare) Not free, not free of charge, that costs money, that must be paid for, that must be purchased; paid (as in paid service); pay (as in pay channel); cash (as in cash bar); paywalled (as in paywalled content).

paye

Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

payement

(uncountable) The act of paying.

payer

(transitive) To pay (a bill).

payeur

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

payeuse

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

pays

A country or region.

pays de Galles

One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

pays de rêve

An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.

pays des fées

The land or abode of fairies.

pays des merveilles

A place full of wonder or marvels.

pays imaginaire

An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.

paysage lunaire

(by extension) A desolate or devastated landscape.

paysan

A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.

paysanne

A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.

PCC

Initialism of w:Chinese Communist Party (Communist Party of China)

PDG

(countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

PDP

(weather) Acronym of probability of precipitation.

pé

The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).

peacekeeper

(Canada, law enforcement) An officer of the peace (police officer) in a force run by a Canadian aboriginal community.

péage

(informal, computing) A system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.

péan

(by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

peau

The skin of a human or animal.

peau de mouton

(uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.

pêche

(British, slang) A punch; a blow with the fist.

pêche à la traîne

A fishing technique in which one or more baited fishing lines are dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trawling, which drags a net#Noun.

péché mignon

(idiomatic) Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.

pécher

(intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.

pécheresse

A person who sins or has sinned.

pêcheur

A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.

pêcheur à la ligne

A person who fishes with a hook and line.

pêcheuse

A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.

pécore

A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior.

pectoral

Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest.

pécuniaire

Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.

pécuniairement

In terms of finance or money.

pédagogie

The profession of teaching.

pédal

Of or relating to the foot.

pédale

(chiefly, UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.

pédale d'embrayage

The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.

pédaler

(intransitive) To ride a bike.

pédant

Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.

pédanterie

(figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.

pédé

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

pédestre

(not comparable) Of or intended for those who are walking.

pédiatre

(American spelling) A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.