pausa

See also: pausá

English

Etymology

From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.

Noun

pausa (uncountable)

1. (linguistics, phonology) The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
   • 1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta orientalia: posthumous writings and selected minor works:

     The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.

   • 1998, Pádraig MacCoisdealbha, The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish, →ISBN:

     Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.

   • 2004, Gerhard Endress, Rüdiger Arnzen, & Jörn Thielmann, Words, Texts, and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea, →ISBN:

     In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa.

   • 2005, Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, & Carina Jahani, Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, page 245:

     For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.

Derived terms

• pausal

Translations

The hiatus between prosodic units

• Arabic: وَقْف‎ m (waqf)

Anagrams

• SPUA-A, pauas

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.zə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.za/

Noun

pausa f (plural pauses)

1. pause

Derived terms

Derived terms

• estratopausa
• mesopausa

• termopausa
• tropopausa

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.za/
• Rhymes: -awza
• Hyphenation: pàu‧sa

Noun

pausa f (plural pause)

1. pause, break, stop, interval

   Synonyms: interruzione, intervallo

2. (music) rest

Related terms

• pausare

Further reading

• pausa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯.sa/, [ˈpäu̯s̠ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯.sa/, [ˈpäːu̯sä]

Noun

pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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, pausa
• French: pause
• Galician: pousa, pausa (borrowing)
• German: Pause, Pausa

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

References

• “pausa”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• pausa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.zɐ/, [ˈpaʊ̯.zɐ]

• Hyphenation: pau‧sa
• Rhymes: -awzɐ

Noun

pausa f (plural pausas)

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

   Synonyms: cessamento, interrupção, suspensão

Related terms

• pausado
• pausagem
• pausar

Verb

pausa

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of pausar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of pausar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpausa/, [ˈpau̯.sa]

Noun

pausa f (plural pausas)

1. break, pause, rest

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.

Further reading

• “pausa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to pause (temporarily halt)
2. (intransitive) to take a pause, to make a break

Conjugation

Conjugation of pausa (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	pausa		pausas
Supine	pausat		pausats
Imperative	pausa		—
Imper. plural1	pausen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	pausar	pausade	pausas	pausades
Ind. plural1	pausa	pausade	pausas	pausades
Subjunctive2	pause	pausade	pauses	pausades
	Participles
Present participle	pausande
Past participle	pausad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• paus
• pausera