pausa

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

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.

• pausal

• SPUA-A, pauas

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpaw.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpaw.za]

pausa f (plural pauses)

1. pause

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

pausa

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

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

From Latin pausa.

pausa f (plural pause)

1. pause, break, stop, interval

   Synonyms: interruzione, intervallo

2. (music) rest

• pausare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pausa

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

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

From Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpau̯.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaːu̯.sa]

pausa f (genitive pausae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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.

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -awzɐ
• Hyphenation: pau‧sa

Borrowed from Latin pausa (“pause; halt”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from the verb παύω (paúō, “to cause to cease, to stop”).

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

• pausado
• pausagem
• pausar

pausa

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

• “pausa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pausa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈpausa/ [ˈpau̯.sa]

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• Rhymes: -ausa
• Syllabification: pau‧sa

Borrowed from Latin pausa.

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^[1]:

     El ICE añadió que la pausa también se debía a “las persistentes preocupaciones relacionadas con la prestación de atención médica a los detenidos”.

     ICE added that the pause was also due to "persistent concerns related to the provision of medical care to detainees."

pausa

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

• “pausa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Latin pausa.

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

• paus
• pausera