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pausa
pausa
See also: pausá
English
Noun
pausa (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The hiatus between prosodic units.
- Some sound laws operate in pausa only. For example, certain phonemes may be pronounced differently at the beginning or end of a word when no other word precedes or follows within the same prosodic unit.
Derived terms
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpau.za/
Noun
pausa f (plural pause)
Synonyms
- (1) interruzione, intervallo
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.sa/
Noun
pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pausa | pausae |
| genitive | pausae | pausārum |
| dative | pausae | pausīs |
| accusative | pausam | pausās |
| ablative | pausā | pausīs |
| vocative | pausa | pausae |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- pausa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pausa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin pausa (“pause; halt”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from the verb παύω (paúō, “to cause to cease, to stop”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pausa f (plural pausas)
- pause (short time for relaxing)
- interruption (time interval during which there is a cessation of something)
Synonyms
- (interruption): cessamento, interrupção, suspensão
Related terms
Verb
pausa
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of pausar
- Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of pausar
Spanish
Noun
pausa f (plural pausas)
Related terms
Verb
pausa
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pausar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pausar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of pausar.