hiatus

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Hiatus (anatomy)

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈeɪtəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəs

Noun

hiatus (countable and uncountable, plural hiatus or hiatuses)

1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
2. An interruption, break or pause.

   The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.

   • 2023 December 13, Mel Holley, “Open access operations help to boost First's figures”, in RAIL, number 998, page 20:

     After a ten-year dividend hiatus, shareholder payments only re-started in July 2022.

3. An unexpected break from work.
4. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
   • 2012, Chinle Miller, “The Tectonic Forces of the Mesozoic”, in In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition, page 33:

     The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regional hiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma.

5. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.

   Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.

6. (linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)

   Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.

7. A temporary absence from the public or the mainstream.

Synonyms

• (gap in series): break
• (interruption, break, pause): breather, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Derived terms

• hiatic
• hiatus hernia

Translations

Anagrams

• Atushi, hutias

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English hiatus), ultimately from Latin hiātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiɑtus/,
• Rhymes: -iɑtus
• Syllabification^(key): hi‧a‧tus

Noun

hiatus

1. (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
2. (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 hiātus (“opening”), from hiō (“stand open”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ja.tys/
• (proscribed) ^{(aspirated h)}

• Audio

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Noun

hiatus m (plural hiatus)

1. hiatus, gap

   Synonym: lacune

2. (phonetics) hiatus

Further reading

• “hiatus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Latin

Alternative forms

• hyātus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From hiō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hiˈaː.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈa.tus/,

Noun

hiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension

1. A hiatus, opening, gap, aperture, cleft

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Synonyms

• hiantia

Descendants

• → Catalan: hiat
• → English: hiatus
• → Italian: iato
• → Portuguese: hiato
• → Romanian: hiat
• → Spanish: hiato

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

hiatus m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of hiato

Romanian

Noun

hiatus n (plural hiatusuri)

1. Alternative form of hiat