agreement, contract (legally binding pact between two or more parties) · convention · convention (a practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom)
çekim: çoğul συμβάσεις · tamlayan σύμβασης
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύμβασις (súmbasis) with -ση (-si) ending and semantic loan from French convention.
köken: /keputei/ → /kefuteː/ → /keuteː/ → /kjoːteː/ Ultimately traceable back to Middle Chinese 協定 (MC hep dengH). However, this might be a much more recent term in Japanese, attested only since 1877, suggesting that this word may have been adopted as part of the modernization and internationalization efforts of the Meiji era (1868–1912).
pact (agreement; a compact; a covenant) · pact (agreement between two or more nations) · pact (group of countries that have entered into an agreement of a political or military nature)
köken: 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 pactumlbor. Polish pakt Learned borrowing from Latin pactum. Doublet of pacht.
aile: pakt konsultatywny, pakt o nieagresji, paktować
commitment, covenant (promise or agreement to do something in the future) · obligation (legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement) · contract (bridge: declarer's undertaking)
an agreement, bargain, pact · a means, manner, method, consideration
çekim: çoğul pacta · tamlayan pactī
köken: Originally from pacīscor (“to arrange by negotiation”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fix; settle”), whence also pāx (“peace”). Not easily distinguishable from Etymology 2 already in Proto-Indo-European, which might reflect an eventual merger of a split outcome of the same root.