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pausa

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See also: pausá

English

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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.

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

Noun

pausa f (plural pauses)

  1. pause
Derived terms

References

  • “pausa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

pausa

  1. inflection of pausar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin pausa.

Noun

pausa f (plural pause)

  1. pause, break, stop, interval
    Synonyms: interruzione, intervallo
  2. (music) rest

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pausa

  1. inflection of pausare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).

Pronunciation

Noun

pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

 

  • Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):(file)
  • Rhymes: -awzɐ
  • Hyphenation: pau‧sa

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)

  1. pause (short time for relaxing)
  2. interruption (time interval during which there is a cessation of something)
    Synonyms: cessamento, interrupção, suspensão

Etymology 2

Verb

pausa

  1. inflection of pausar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpausa/ [ˈpau̯.sa]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ausa
  • Syllabification: pau‧sa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Noun

pausa f (plural pausas)

  1. 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)

Etymology 2

Verb

pausa

  1. inflection of pausar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin pausa.

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

More information active, passive ...

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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