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The word to "pay" is derived from the Latin "pacare" meaning originally to pacify or appease - through the appropriate unit of value customarily acceptable to both sides.
The Rise and Fall of the US Dollar as the The World Reserve 2008
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Duo (praetores) deprecati sunt ne in provincias irent, M. Popillius in Sardiniam: Gracchum eam provinciam pacare &c ....
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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_Payer_, to pay, is still used in its original sense of pacifying or satisfying, the Latin _pacare_.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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