hiatus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hiatus (plural hiatus or hiatuses)
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break or pause.
- An unexpected break from work.
- Twenty one pilots’ hiatus seems like it‘s never going to end.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
- (linguistics) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
- Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.
Synonyms
- (gap in series): break
Derived terms
Translations
gap in a series
|
interruption, break or pause
|
vacation
|
gap in geological strata
anatomy: opening in an organ
syllable break between two vowels
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
|
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
hiatus
- (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
- (anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).
Declension
Inflection of hiatus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | hiatus | hiatukset | ||
genitive | hiatuksen | hiatusten hiatuksien | ||
partitive | hiatusta | hiatuksia | ||
illative | hiatukseen | hiatuksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | hiatus | hiatukset | ||
accusative | nom. | hiatus | hiatukset | |
gen. | hiatuksen | |||
genitive | hiatuksen | hiatusten hiatuksien | ||
partitive | hiatusta | hiatuksia | ||
inessive | hiatuksessa | hiatuksissa | ||
elative | hiatuksesta | hiatuksista | ||
illative | hiatukseen | hiatuksiin | ||
adessive | hiatuksella | hiatuksilla | ||
ablative | hiatukselta | hiatuksilta | ||
allative | hiatukselle | hiatuksille | ||
essive | hiatuksena | hiatuksina | ||
translative | hiatukseksi | hiatuksiksi | ||
abessive | hiatuksetta | hiatuksitta | ||
instructive | — | hiatuksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hiātus (“opening”), from hiō (“stand open”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hiatus m (plural hiatus)
Synonyms
- (gap): lacune
Further reading
- “hiatus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hiˈaː.tus/, [hiˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈa.tus/, [iˈäːt̪us]
Noun
hiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hiātus | hiātūs |
Genitive | hiātūs | hiātuum |
Dative | hiātuī | hiātibus |
Accusative | hiātum | hiātūs |
Ablative | hiātū | hiātibus |
Vocative | hiātus | hiātūs |
Synonyms
References
- “hiatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hiatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hiatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Noun
hiatus m (invariable)
- Alternative form of hiato
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪtəs
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Geology
- en:Anatomy
- en:Linguistics
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Linguistics
- fi:Anatomy
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms taking either aspirated or mute h
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese indeclinable nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns