See also: periodo

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período m (plural períodos)

  1. period (interval of time)

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Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do

Noun edit

período m (plural períodos)

  1. period (time)
  2. (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).

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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

  • IPA(key): /peˈɾiodo/ [peˈɾi.o.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -iodo
  • Syllabification: pe‧rí‧o‧do

Noun edit

período m (plural períodos)

  1. period (a length of time)
    Synonyms: época, era
    Hypernym: tiempo
  2. (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years)

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  1. ^ período” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN

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