periodo
EnglishEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
periodo (not comparable)
- (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Describing a derivative in which all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by iodine
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
periodo (accusative singular periodon, plural periodoj, accusative plural periodojn)
- period of time
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IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Esperanto periodo, English period, French période, German Periode, Italian periodo, Russian пери́од (períod), Spanish periodo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
periodo (plural periodi)
- period (of time)
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InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
periodo (plural periodos)
- period (segment of time)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
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LatinEdit
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periodō
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
periodo m (plural periodos)
- Alternative form of período
Further readingEdit
- “periodo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014