periodus

See also: periódus

Latin

Alternative forms

• perihodos, perihodus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peˈri.o.dus/, [pɛˈriɔd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈri.o.dus/, [peˈriːod̪us]

Noun

periodus f (genitive periodī); second declension

1. a complete sentence; period
2. the circuit of the four Grecian games

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	periodus	periodī
Genitive	periodī	periodōrum
Dative	periodō	periodīs
Accusative	periodum	periodōs
Ablative	periodō	periodīs
Vocative	periode	periodī

Descendants

• → Catalan: període
• → Middle French: periode
  • French: période
    • → Turkish: periyot
  • → Middle English: periode
    • English: period
• → Galician: período
• → German: Periodus, Periode
• → Irish: peiriad
• → Italian: periodo
• → Portuguese: período
• → Romanian: perioadă
• → Spanish: período

References

• “periodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• periodus 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)
• periodus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus