pareil

French pareil

pareil (plural pareils)

1. (formal) An equal.

   Among writers he was a man without pareil.

From Middle French pareil, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pariclus (compare Catalan parell, Greek παρέα (paréa), Italian parecchio, Occitan parelh, Romanian pereche, Spanish parejo), from contraction of *pariculus, a diminutive of Latin pār.

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

pareil (feminine singular pareille, masculine plural pareils, feminine plural pareilles)

1. such

   Je n'ai jamais vu une chose pareille.

   I've never seen such a thing.

2. like, alike, same

   Les chauves-souris voletaient en silence, pareilles à des ombres inquiètes.

   Bats flutter in silence like worried shadows.

   Il est pareil à son père. (Quebec)

   He's like his father.

The adjective is often placed before the noun in formal style: un pareil crime, whereas un crime pareil sounds more natural.

• impareil
• sans pareil
• nonpareil

• même
• tel

• “pareil” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• palier, pilera, plaire, pliera, replia