país
/paˈis/ · A1 · noun · m
country
🗺️ país → paisano, paisaje: the land, its people, its landscape
From French pays, from Latin pagus (rural district) — the same root as English peasant and pagan. Say it in two beats, pa-ÍS, with the stress on the accented í. Related words: paisano (fellow countryman) and paisaje (landscape).