intermission

What it means

1. A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.

   We ordered some drinks for the intermission.

   1 more example

   The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.

   1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265

In a sentence

We ordered some drinks for the intermission.

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
4. Latininter
5. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
6. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
7. Proto-Indo-European*méyth₂eti
8. Proto-Italic*meitō
9. Old Latinmītō
10. Latinmittō
11. Latinintermittō
12. Latinintermissiō
13. Englishintermission

Derived from Latin intermissiō, from intermittō (“interrupt, omit”) + -tiō.