pausa

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): /ˈpaw.sa/

Noun

pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Number	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
• 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, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

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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