pausa

See also: pausá

English

Etymology

Latin pausa ‎(“break”), related to pause, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Noun

pausa ‎(uncountable)

1. (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

• pausal

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Catalan

Noun

pausa f ‎(plural pauses)

1. pause

Derived terms

Derived terms

estratopausa mesopausa

termopausa tropopausa

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpau.za/

Noun

pausa f ‎(plural pause)

1. pause, break, stop, interval
2. (music) rest

Synonyms

• (1) interruzione, intervallo

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παῦσις ‎(paûsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯.sa/

Noun

pausa f ‎(genitive pausae); first declension

1. a pause, halt, stop, cessation, end

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

• pausābilis
• pausārius
• pausātē
• pausātus
• pausō

Descendants

• Catalan: pausa
• Dutch: pauze, poos
• English: pause
• French: pause
• German: Pause

• Italian: pausa, posa
• Portuguese: pausa, pousar
• Romanian: pauză
• Russian: пауза ‎(pauza)
• Spanish: pausa

References

• pausa in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pausa in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin pausa ‎(“pause; halt”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις ‎(paûsis), from the verb παύω ‎(paúō, “to cause to cease, to stop”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.za/, /ˈpaw.zɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: pau‧sa

Noun

pausa f (plural pausas)

1. pause (short time for relaxing)
2. interruption (time interval during which there is a cessation of something)

Synonyms

• (interruption): cessamento, interrupção, suspensão

Related terms

• pausado
• pausagem
• pausar

Verb

pausa

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of pausar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of pausar

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Spanish

Noun

pausa f ‎(plural pausas)

1. break, pause

Related terms

• pausar

Verb

pausa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pausar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pausar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pausar.

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Swedish

Verb

pausa ‎(present pausar, preterite pausade, supine pausat, imperative pausa)

1. to pause; to take a pause, to make a break

Conjugation

Conjugation of pausa

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	pausa	pausas
Present tense	pausar	pausas
Past tense	pausade	pausades
Supine	pausat	pausats
Imperative	pausa	—
Present participle	pausande
Past participle	pausad

Related terms

• paus
• pausera