pact

English

Etymology

From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pækt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækt
• Homophone: packed

Noun

pact (plural pacts)

1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pact

   write up a pact

   New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members.

2. (international law) An agreement between two or more nations.
   • 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 613:

     In response, all seven nations of the Baltic community signed the Helsinki Convention of 1974, the world's first pact to protect an entire sea against pollution from all sources.

3. (military) An alliance or coalition.

Hyponyms

• nude pact
• pact of silence
• sex pact
• suicide pact

Derived terms

• pactless

Translations

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 (kelisim)
• 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

Verb

pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)

1. (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.

Translations

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)

Further reading

• “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Capt, Capt., P.C.A.T., PCAT, PTCA, TCAP, capt

Dutch

Etymology

From French pacte, from Latin pactum. Doublet of pacht.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)

1. pact

Derived terms

• Warschaupact

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ-der.

Latin pacō

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti

Proto-Italic *-ēskō

Latin -īscō

Latin pacīscor

Latin pactum

French pactebor.

Romanian pact

Borrowed from French pacte, from Latin pactum.

Noun

pact n (plural pacte)

1. pact

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pact	pactul	pacte	pactele
genitive-dative	pact	pactului	pacte	pactelor
vocative	pactule		pactelor