período
See also: periodo
Galician edit
Noun edit
período m (plural períodos)
- period (interval of time)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do
Noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
período m (plural períodos)
- period (a length of time)
- (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years)
Usage notes edit
- The sense "period, menstrual cycle" applies only to the alternative form periodo.[1]
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Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ “período” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “período”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014