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Galician
Noun
período m (plural períodos)
- period (interval of time)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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
- period (menstruation)
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).
References
- “período”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “período”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “período”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “período”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈɾiodo/
- Rhymes: -iodo
- Syllabification: pe‧rí‧o‧do
Noun
período m (plural períodos)
- period (a length of time)
- Synonyms: época, era
- Hypernym: tiempo
- (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years)
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