different between hiatus vs rift

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?ft, IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.

Noun

rift (plural rifts)

1. A chasm or fissure.

   My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.

   The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.

2. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:

     I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.

3. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Derived terms

• rift valley

Translations

Verb

rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)

1. (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
2. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.

   to rift an oak

   • to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt

   • 1822, William Wordsworth, "A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)" 9-11, [1]

     The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]

     he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rypta.

Verb

rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.

Etymology 3

Verb

rift (obsolete)

1. past participle of rive

   The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift

   Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.

Anagrams

• FTIR, frit

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb rive

Noun

rift f or m (definite singular rifta or riften, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)

1. a rip, tear (in fabric)
2. a break (in the clouds)
3. a scratch (on skin, paint)
4. a rift (geology)

Derived terms

• riftdal

References

• “rift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rift” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb rive or riva

Noun

rift f (definite singular rifta, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)

1. a rip, tear (in fabric)
2. a break (in the clouds)
3. a scratch (on skin, paint)
4. a rift (geology)

Derived terms

• riftdal

References

• “rift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rift?, *riftij?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?reb?- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rift/

Noun

rift n (nominative plural rift)

1. a veil; curtain; cloak

Related terms

• rifte

Descendants

• Middle English: rift

Romanian

Etymology

From French rift.

Noun

rift n (plural rifturi)

1. rift

Declension

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse rypta.

Verb

rift (third-person singular present rifts, present participle riftin, past riftit, past participle riftit)

1. to belch, burp