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pawnshop (n.)[pawnshop 词源字典]: also pawn-shop, by 1763, from pawn (n.1) + shop (n.).[pawnshop etymology, pawnshop origin, 英语词源]
pawpaw (n.): see papaw.
pax (n.): mid-15c., "kiss of peace," from Latin pax (genitive pacis) "peace," in Ecclesiastical Latin, "kiss of peace" (see peace). Capitalized, Pax was the name of the Roman goddess of peace. Used by 1933 with adjectives from national names, on model of Pax Romana (such as Pax Britannica, 1872; Pax Americana, 1886, with reference to Latin America).
pay (v.): c. 1200, "to appease, pacify, satisfy," from Old French paier "to pay, pay up" (12c., Modern French payer), from Latin pacare "to please, pacify, satisfy" (in Medieval Latin especially "satisfy a creditor"), literally "make peaceful," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace). Meaning "to give what is due for goods or services" arose in Medieval Latin and was attested in English by early 13c.; sense of "please, pacify" died out in English by 1500. Sense of "suffer, endure" (a punishment, etc.) is first recorded late 14c. Related: Paid; paying.
pay (n.): c. 1300, "satisfaction, liking, reward," from pay (v.), or else from Old French paie "payment, recompense," from paier. Meaning "money given for labor or services, wages" is from late 14c.
payable (adj.): late 14c., "to be paid," from pay (v.) + -able or from Old French paiable.
payback (n.): also pay-back, 1946, "net return on profits from an investment," from pay (v.) + back (adj.). Meaning "revenge" is attested from 1957.
paycheck (n.): also pay-check, 1894, from pay (n.) + check (n.1).
payday (n.): also pay-day, 1520s, from pay (n.) + day.
paydirt (n.): also pay dirt, "profit, success," 1873, from pay (n.) + dirt (n.); a word from mining, where it was used in a literal sense from 1856.
payee (n.): 1758, from pay (v.) + -ee.
payer (n.): "person who pays" (originally wages, late 14c., later taxes, early 15c.), from Old French paiere (13c.), agent noun from paier (see pay (v.)).
payload (n.): also pay-load, 1917, from pay + load (n.). Originally the part of a truck's (later an aircraft's) load from which revenue is derived (passengers, cargo, mail); figurative sense of "bombs, etc. carried by a plane or missile" is from 1936.
payment (n.): late 14c., from Old French paiement (13c.), from paiier (see pay (v.)).
paynim (n.): mid-13c., "heathen lands," from Old French paienime, paienisme "heathen, pagan; Saracen lands or culture or faith," from Late Latin paganismus "heathendom" (Augustine), from paganus "heathen" (see pagan); mistaken meaning "a heathen person" (late 14c., also in Old French) is via phrases such as paynim lands.
payoff (n.): also pay-off, 1905, "winnings from gambling," from pay (v.) + off. Meaning "graft, bribes" first attested 1930. Phrase to pay off "be profitable" is first recorded 1937.
payola (n.): "graft" (especially to disc jockeys from record companies to play their music), 1938 (in a "Variety" headline), from pay off "bribery" (underworld slang from 1930) + ending from Victrola, etc. (see pianola). Compare also plugola (1959), from plug (n.) in the advertising sense.
payor (n.): 1817, agent noun in Latin form from pay (v.). Chiefly legalese.
payout (n.): 1904, from pay (v.) + out. Originally in reference to oil wells that produced enough to justify the expense of drilling them.
Paypal (n.): e-commerce money transfer business, formed 2000 by merger of earlier firms.