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pausa
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See also: pausá
English
Etymology
From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.
Noun
pausa (uncountable)
- (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.
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Catalan
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
pausa f (plural pauses)
Derived terms
References
- “pausa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Etymology 2
Verb
pausa
- inflection of pausar:
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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pausa f (plural pause)
- pause, break, stop, interval
- Synonyms: interruzione, intervallo
- (music) rest
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pausa
- inflection of pausare:
Further reading
- pausa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpau̯.sa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaːu̯.sa]
Noun
pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
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Descendants
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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin pausa (“pause; halt”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from the verb παύω (paúō, “to cause to cease, to stop”).
Noun
pausa f (plural pausas)
- pause (short time for relaxing)
- interruption (time interval during which there is a cessation of something)
- Synonyms: cessamento, interrupção, suspensão
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
pausa
- inflection of pausar:
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pausa f (plural pausas)
- break, pause, rest
- 2025 June 20, Randi Kaye and David von Blohn, “El ICE renueva acuerdo con el centro de detención que, según la agencia, no cumplía las normas”, in CNN en Español:
- El ICE añadió que la pausa también se debía a “las persistentes preocupaciones relacionadas con la prestación de atención médica a los detenidos”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2
Verb
pausa
- inflection of pausar:
Further reading
- “pausa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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Swedish
Etymology
Verb
pausa (present pausar, preterite pausade, supine pausat, imperative pausa)
- (transitive) to pause (temporarily halt)
- (intransitive) to take a pause, to make a break
Conjugation
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Related terms
- paus
- pausera
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