paries

American  

[pair-ee-eez] / ˈpɛər iˌiz /

noun

plural

parietes

1. Biology. Usually parietes. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.

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paries British  

/ ˈpɛərɪˌiːz /

noun

1. the wall of an organ or bodily cavity

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Etymology

Origin of paries

1720–30; < New Latin, special use of Latin pariēs a wall, partition

Example Sentences

Quæ benè quom videas, rationem reddere possis Tute tibi atque aliis, quo pacto per loca sola Saxa paries formas verborum ex ordine reddant, Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opacos Quærimus, et magna dispersos voce ciemus.

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

To those who are not yet visibly assailed, and who possibly believe themselves secure, we can only give the warning: Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

That paries proximus concerns us, in our present uneasy condition, more than one likes to think of.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox

From Latin paries, a wall; properly, a partition-wall, from the root of part or pare.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

Atque his conatibus minus fuccedentibus, gens noftra nauibus abundans otij impatiens, in alias paries fuas nauigationes inftituerunt.

From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry