pausa
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin pausa (“break”), related to pause, ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Noun[edit]
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.
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Catalan[edit]
Noun[edit]
pausa f (plural pauses)
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Derived terms
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pausa f (plural pause)
Synonyms[edit]
- (1) interruzione, intervallo
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek παῦσις (pausis), from the verb "παύω" (pauō), "to cause to cease, to stop".
Noun[edit]
pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension
Inflection[edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pausa | pausae |
| genitive | pausae | pausārum |
| dative | pausae | pausīs |
| accusative | pausam | pausās |
| ablative | pausā | pausīs |
| vocative | pausa | pausae |
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin pausa (“pause; halt”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (pausis), from the verb παύω (pauō, “to cause to cease, to stop”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pausa f (plural pausas)
- pause (short time for relaxing)
- interruption (time interval during which there is a cessation of something)
Synonyms[edit]
- (interruption): cessamento, interrupção, suspensão
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Verb[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
pausa f (plural pausas)
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Verb[edit]
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.
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
pausa (present pausar, preterite pausade, supine pausat , imperative pausa )
- to pause; to take a pause, to make a break
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of pausa
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