período
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See also: periodo
Galician
Noun
período m (plural períodos)
- period (interval of time)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do
Noun
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
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
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
Noun
período m (plural períodos)
- period (a length of time)
- (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
Related terms
References
- ^ “período” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN
Further reading
- “período”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014