pausa

noun

1. The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.

   uncountable

   The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.

Where it comes from

From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pausa (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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