periodo
See also: período
English
Adjective
periodo (not comparable)
- (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Describing a derivative in which all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by iodine
Esperanto
Etymology
From Italian periodo, French période, English period, German Periode, Russian пери́од (períod), all from Medieval Latin periodus (“period, complete sentence”), from Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (períodos, “flank march; circumference; periodic occurrence”). Compare Portuguese, Galician and Spanish período, Romanian perioadă.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): [periˈodo]
- Rhymes: -odo
- Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧o‧do
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto periodo, English period, French période, German Periode, Italian periodo, Russian пери́од (períod), Spanish periodo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.riˈo.do/
Derived terms
- periodala
Italian
Etymology
From Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈri.o.do/
- Rhymes: -iodo
- Hyphenation: pe‧rì‧o‧do
Noun
periodo m (plural periodi)
- period, time, span, run
- (chemistry) period (in the periodic table)
- (physics) the time between successive peaks or troughs in a sinusoidal phenomenon
- (astronomy) the time taken for a planet to orbit its star; year
- moment
- age, epoch (subdivision of an era)
- season
- (grammar) complex or compound sentence
- Synonym: frase complessa
Related terms
Latin
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈɾjodo/ [peˈɾjo.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -odo
- Syllabification: pe‧rio‧do
Further reading
- “periodo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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