pausa

See also: pausá

English

Etymology

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

Noun

pausa

1. (linguistics) 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 insturmental +ine.

Derived terms

• pausal

Translations

The hiatus between prosodic units

• Arabic: وَقْف‎ m (waqf)

Anagrams

• 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

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, 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. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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

• (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 (weak)

	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