Translation
pause; break
Word origin
From Latin pausa, borrowed from Greek pausis ('a stopping'), the same international word English took as pause.
- Origin
- Greek, via Latin
- Root
- pausis
- English cognates
- pause, repose
Examples
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Let us take a short break.
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After the break the meeting carried on.
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He spoke without a pause for an hour.
covers the coffee break, the rest in a piece of music and the gap in a sentence. Watch the diphthong: is one syllable, so the word is two beats, PAŬ-zo. You take one with .
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