período
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See also: periodo
Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]período m (plural períodos)
- period (interval of time)
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do
Noun
[edit]período m (plural períodos)
- period (time)
- (Portugal) a school year interval (in pre-university education) of approximately three months, the first running from the beginning of the school year in September, until Christmas, the second from Christmas to Easter, and the third from Easter to the end of the school year in June
Usage notes
[edit]Despite the orthography, in Portugal, the word is most often pronounced with the stress falling on the first o, even in careful speech (i.e. as if spelt periúdo).
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]período m (plural períodos)
- period (a length of time)
- (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years)
Usage notes
[edit]- The sense "period, menstrual cycle" applies only to the alternative form periodo.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “período” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “período”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
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- European Portuguese
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- Rhymes:Spanish/iodo
- Rhymes:Spanish/iodo/4 syllables
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