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hiatus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hi?tus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hi? (“stand open, yawn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha??e?t?s/
- Rhymes: -e?t?s
Noun
hiatus (countable and uncountable, plural hiatus or hiatuses)
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break or pause.
- An unexpected break from work.
- Berserk's hiatus seems like it‘s never going to end.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
- (linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
- Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.
Synonyms
- (gap in series): break
- (interruption, break, pause): breather, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
Derived terms
- hiatus hernia
Translations
Anagrams
- hutias
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hi?tus/, [?hi?t?us?]
- Rhymes: -i?tus
- Syllabification: hi?a?tus
Noun
hiatus
- (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
- (anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).
Declension
Synonyms
- (opening in an organ): aukko, avanne
See also
- (linguistics): vokaaliyhtymä
Anagrams
- haisut, haitsu, hitaus
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin hi?tus (“opening”), from hi? (“stand open”).
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ja.tys/
- (proscribed) (aspirated h)
Noun
hiatus m (plural hiatus)
- hiatus, gap
- Synonym: lacune
- (phonetics) hiatus
Further reading
- “hiatus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Alternative forms
- hy?tus (medieval)
Etymology
From hi? +? -tus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hi?a?.tus/, [hi?ä?t??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i?a.tus/, [i???t?us]
Noun
hi?tus m (genitive hi?t?s); fourth declension
- A hiatus, opening, gap, aperture, cleft
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Synonyms
- hiantia
References
- hiatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hiatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hiatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
hiatus m (plural hiatus)
- Alternative form of hiato
Romanian
Noun
hiatus n (plural hiatusuri)
- Alternative form of hiat
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crevice
English
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??v?s/
Noun
crevice (plural crevices)
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
- 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
Translations
Verb
crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)
- To crack; to flaw.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
References
- crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search
Old French
Alternative forms
- crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche
Etymology
From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).
Noun
crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)
- crayfish, crawfish
Descendants
- Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
- French: écrevisse
- ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
- ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
- English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)
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