παύση
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Koine Greek παῦσις (paûsis) with semantic loan from French pause in the musical senses.[1] By surface analysis, παύω (pávo) + -ση (-si).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]παύση • (páfsi) f (plural παύσεις)
- pause, hiatus
- cessation, discontinuation
- termination (the process of firing an employee)
- (music) rest (a pause of a specified length in a piece of music)
- (music) rest, pause (a written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | παύση (páfsi) | παύσεις (páfseis) |
| genitive | παύσης (páfsis) | παύσεων (páfseon) |
| accusative | παύση (páfsi) | παύσεις (páfseis) |
| vocative | παύση (páfsi) | παύσεις (páfseis) |
Also, older or formal genitive singlar: παύσεως (páfseos)
References
[edit]- ^ παύση, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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- Greek terms borrowed from Koine Greek
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- Greek semantic loans from French
- Greek terms derived from French
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- el:Music
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