# pausa
## 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.

#### Derived terms

* pausal

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* SPUA-A, pauas

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpaw.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpaw.za]

#### Noun

pausa f (plural pauses)
* pause

##### Derived terms

* estratopausa
* mesopausa
* termopausa
* tropopausa

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pausa
* inflection of pausar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaw.za/
* Rhymes: -awza
* Hyphenation: pàu‧sa

### Etymology 1

From Latin pausa.

#### Noun

pausa f (plural pause)
* pause, break, stop, interval
    Synonyms: interruzione, intervallo
* (music) rest

##### Related terms

* pausare

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pausa
* inflection of pausare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** 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

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpau̯.sa/, [ˈpäu̯s̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpau̯.sa/, [ˈpäːu̯sä]

### Noun

pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension
* a pause, halt, stop, cessation, end

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* pausābilis
* pausārius
* pausātē
* pausātus
* pausō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: pausa
* Dutch: pauze, poos
* English: pause, pausa
* French: pause
* Galician: pousa, pausa (borrowing)
* German: Pause, Pausa
* Italian: pausa, posa
* Portuguese: pausa, pousar
* Romanian: pauză
* Russian: пауза (pauza)
* Spanish: pausa

### 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
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.zɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.zɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.zɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.zɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.za/ [ˈpaʊ̯.za]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpaw.zɐ/
* 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)
* pause (short time for relaxing)
* interruption (time interval during which there is a cessation of something)
    Synonyms: cessamento, interrupção, suspensão

##### Related terms

* pausado
* pausagem
* pausar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pausa
* inflection of pausar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

#### Noun

pausa f (plural pausas)
* break, pause, rest

##### Related terms

* pausar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pausa
* inflection of pausar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### 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], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin pausa.

### Verb

pausa (present pausar, preterite pausade, supine pausat, imperative pausa)
* (transitive) to pause (temporarily halt)
* (intransitive) to take a pause, to make a break

#### Related terms

* paus
* pausera