noun, masculine/paˈis/plural: países
country (the territory of a nation); country, land (a set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits)
“Michael Wallace, deportado a Jamaica, su país de origen, padece epilepsia.” — Michael Wallace, deported to Jamaica, his country of origin, suffers from epilepsy.
Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagēnsis, from Latin pāgus (“country”). Compare Sicilian pajisi, Italian paese.