periodo
See also: período
English Edit
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Adjective Edit
periodo (not comparable)
- (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Describing a derivative in which all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by iodine
Esperanto Edit
Etymology Edit
From Italian periodo, French période, English period, German Periode, Russian пери́од (períod), all from Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (períodos).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
periodo (accusative singular periodon, plural periodoj, accusative plural periodojn)
- period (of time)
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Ido Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Esperanto periodo, English period, French période, German Periode, Italian periodo, Russian пери́од (períod), Spanish periodo.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
periodo (plural periodi)
- period (of time)
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Interlingua Edit
Noun Edit
periodo (plural periodos)
- period (segment of time)
Italian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
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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Latin Edit
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periodō
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Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
periodo m (plural periodos)
- Alternative form of período
Further reading Edit
- “periodo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014