Pades (, ) is a settlement in Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The village located in a ravine on the right side of the river Vjosa.
The placename comes from the Greek Epirot preposition padi meaning the 'flat and smooth surface in the middle of the slope' stemming from the Slavic term padÃÂ with the same meaning and not directly from the Slavic preposition of the term, as the toponym is etymologised by linguist Max Vasmer. In Aromanian the term is a loanword where the noun is pÃÂde meaning 'the flat place' and the adjective pade 'below, low'. The Aromanian form of the toponym is from the plural pÃÂdz of the above Aromanian word.
Pades has an Aromanian population and is an Aromanian speaking village. In the early 21st century, elderly people were bilingual in the community language and Greek, whereas younger residents under 40 might have understood the community language but did not use it.