Etymology

-pause

Today it means: Indicative of a pause or discontinuance. Full definition →

Middle French pause ← Latin pausa ← Ancient Greek παῦσις
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαῦσις“discontinuance”
  2. Latin · derived frompausa
  3. Middle French · derived frompause
  4. English today-pause

From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis, “discontinuance”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchpause all →

pause

Latinpausa all →

posepausepausa

Ancient Greekπαῦσις all →

posepausepausaphilosopause

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.