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pagar (Verb) "to pay" 12th cent. From Latin pacare, defined in Roberts (2014) as "to pacify (after having conquered)." A verb formed from pax "peace" (see paz). Indo-European Romance Asturian pagar, Portuguese pagar, Galician pagar, Catalan pagar, French payer, Italian pacare, Romanian împăca, Sardinian pacare Basque Old Low Navarrese bakatu "pay," Roncalese pakatu 'id.,' both borrowed from Latin pacare; Bizkaian pagau "pay," borrowed from pagar Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008. Trask, R. L. Etymological Dictionary of Basque. University of Sussex. 2008.