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período

See also: periodo

Galician

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Noun

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período m (plural períodos)

  1. period (interval of time)

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do

Noun

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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
  3. period (menstruation)

Usage notes

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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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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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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Derived terms

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References

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

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Anagrams

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