Etymology

hiatus

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Today it means: A gap in a series, making it incomplete. Full definition →

Latin hiātus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromhiātus“opening”
  2. English todayhiatus

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

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