hiatus

Borrowed from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈeɪtəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəs

hiatus (plural hiatus or hiatuses)

1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
2. An interruption, break or pause.
3. An unexpected break from work.

   Twenty one pilots’ hiatus seems like it‘s never going to end.

4. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
5. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.

   Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.

6. (linguistics) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)

   Words like reality and naïve contain vowels in hiatus.

• (gap in series): break

• hiatus hernia

• hutias

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiɑtus/, [ˈhiɑt̪us̠]

hiatus

1. (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
2. (anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).

• (opening in an organ): aukko, avanne

• haisut, haitsu, hitaus

Latin hiātus (“opening”), from hiō (“stand open”).

• ^{(aspirated or mute h)} IPA^(key): /ja.tys/

hiatus m (plural hiatus)

1. A hiatus, gap
2. A hiatus, in the linguistic sense

• (gap): lacune

• “hiatus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From hiō +‎ -tus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hiˈaː.tus/, [hɪˈaː.tʊs]

hiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension

1. A hiatus, opening, gap, aperture, cleft

Fourth declension.

• hiantia

• hiatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hiatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hiatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

hiatus m (plural hiatus)

1. Alternative form of hiato