different between pause vs pausa

English

Etymology

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ?????? (paûsis). Compare the doublet pausa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pôz, IPA^(key): /p??z/
• (US) enPR: pôz, IPA^(key): /p?z/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: päz, IPA^(key): /p?z/
• Rhymes: -??z
• Homophones: paws, pores (in non-rhotic accents), pours (in non-rhotic accents)

Verb

pause (third-person singular simple present pauses, present participle pausing, simple past and past participle paused)

1. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
2. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
3. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
4. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.

   to pause a song, a video, or a computer game

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.

Translations

Noun

pause (plural pauses)

1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

   Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
2. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

   Synonyms: break, holiday, recess; see also Thesaurus:vacation

3. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

   Synonyms: vacillation, wavering
4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.

5. A break or paragraph in writing.
6. (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
7. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”)
8. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate

Derived terms

• filled pause
• pregnant pause

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “stop”).

Noun

pause c (singular definite pausen, plural indefinite pauser)

1. pause

Declension

Derived terms

• pausere

Further reading

• “pause” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “pause” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poz/

Noun

pause f (plural pauses)

1. pause, break
2. (music) rest

Derived terms

• pause thé

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

pause f

1. plural of pausa

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

Noun

pause f (plural pauses)

1. pause (brief cessation)

Descendants

• ? English: pause
• French: pause

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “stop”).

Noun

pause m (definite singular pausen, indefinite plural pauser, definite plural pausene)

1. a pause, a break (short time for relaxing)

Derived terms

• hvilepause
• kaffepause
• lunsjpause

References

• “pause” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “stop”).

Noun

pause m (definite singular pausen, indefinite plural pausar, definite plural pausane)

1. a pause or break (short time for relaxing)

Derived terms

• lunsjpause

References

• “pause” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

pause

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pausar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pausar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pausar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pausar

Spanish

Verb

pause

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pausar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pausar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pausar.

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