different between hiatus vs pausa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hi?tus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hi? (“stand open, yawn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??e?t?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s

Noun

hiatus (countable and uncountable, plural hiatus or hiatuses)

1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
2. An interruption, break or pause.
3. An unexpected break from work.

   Berserk's hiatus seems like it‘s never going to end.

4. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
5. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.

   Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.

6. (linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)

   Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.

Synonyms

• (gap in series): break
• (interruption, break, pause): breather, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Derived terms

• hiatus hernia

Translations

Anagrams

• hutias

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hi?tus/, [?hi?t?us?]
• Rhymes: -i?tus
• Syllabification: hi?a?tus

Noun

hiatus

1. (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
2. (anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).

Declension

Synonyms

• (opening in an organ): aukko, avanne

See also

• (linguistics): vokaaliyhtymä

Anagrams

• haisut, haitsu, hitaus

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hi?tus (“opening”), from hi? (“stand open”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ja.tys/
• (proscribed) ^{(aspirated h)}

Noun

hiatus m (plural hiatus)

1. hiatus, gap

   Synonym: lacune

2. (phonetics) hiatus

Further reading

• “hiatus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• hy?tus (medieval)

Etymology

From hi? +? -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hi?a?.tus/, [hi?ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i?a.tus/, [i???t?us]

Noun

hi?tus m (genitive hi?t?s); fourth declension

1. A hiatus, opening, gap, aperture, cleft

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Synonyms

• hiantia

References

• hiatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hiatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hiatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

hiatus m (plural hiatus)

1. Alternative form of hiato

Romanian

Noun

hiatus n (plural hiatusuri)

1. Alternative form of hiat

English

Etymology

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

Noun

pausa (uncountable)

1. (linguistics, phonology) The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.

Derived terms

• pausal

Translations

Anagrams

• pauas

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?paw.z?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?paw.za/

Noun

pausa f (plural pauses)

1. pause

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paw.za/

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (paûsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pau?.sa/, [?päu?s?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pau?.sa/, [?p??u?s?]

Noun

pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin pausa (“pause; halt”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (paûsis), from the verb ???? (paú?, “to cause to cease, to stop”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?paw.za/, /?paw.z?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?paw.z?/
• 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: 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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pausa/, [?pau?.sa]

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.

Swedish

Verb

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

1. to pause; to take a pause, to make a break

Conjugation

Related terms

• paus
• pausera