hiatus

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

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈeɪtəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəs

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.

3. An unexpected break from work.

   Berserk's hiatus is never going to end now...

4. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
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.

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

• hiatic
• hiatus hernia

• Atushi, hutias

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

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

hiatus

1. (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
2. (anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).

• (opening in an organ): aukko, avanne

• (linguistics): vokaaliyhtymä

• haisut, haitsu, hitaus

Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”), from hiō (“stand open”).

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

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hiatus m (plural hiatus)

1. hiatus, gap

   Synonym: lacune

2. (phonetics) hiatus

• “hiatus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• hyātus (medieval)

From hiō +‎ -tus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hiˈaː.tus/, [hiˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈa.tus/, [iˈäːt̪us]

hiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension

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

Fourth-declension noun.

• hiantia

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

• “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

hiatus m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of hiato

hiatus n (plural hiatusuri)

1. Alternative form of hiat