pausa
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
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- 9
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- 5
Definition of pausa
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
“The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.”
“Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.”
“In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa.”
“For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.
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