Pausa

In linguistics, pausa (Latin for 'break', from Greek παῦσις, pâusis 'stopping, ceasing'[1][2]) is the hiatus between prosodic declination units. The concept is somewhat broad, as it is primarily used to refer to allophones that occur in certain prosodic environments, and these environments vary between languages.

  1. ^ pausa, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, on Perseus
  2. ^ παῦσις, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, on Perseus