período

See also: periodo

Galician

Noun

período m (plural períodos)

1. period (interval of time)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈɾi.o.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈɾi.o.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈɾi.o.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨ.ɾiˈu.du/ [pɨ.ɾiˈu.ðu]

• Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do

Noun

período m (plural períodos)

1. period (time)
2. (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

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

Alternative forms

• periodo

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈɾiodo/ [peˈɾi.o.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -iodo
• Syllabification: pe‧rí‧o‧do

Noun

período m (plural períodos)

1. period (a length of time)

   Synonyms: época, era

   Hypernym: tiempo

2. (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years)

Usage notes

• The sense "period, menstrual cycle" applies only to the alternative form periodo.

Derived terms

• periodizar

 

Related terms

• periódico

 

Further reading

• “período”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• poderío