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語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /haɪˈeɪtəs/
• (Philippines) IPA: /hɐˈjaː.t̪ʊs/
• 韻: -eɪtəs

名詞

hiatus (countable and uncountable, plural hiatus or hiatuses or (nonstandard) hiati)

1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.

   Synonym: break

   • 1912, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers‎:

     Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.

2. An interruption, break, pause or absence.

   Synonyms: breather, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

   The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.

   • 1895, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     It is wonderful that you should have slipped back into your American life so easily after your English hiatus.

   • 2023 December 13, Mel Holley, “Open access operations help to boost First's figures”, in RAIL, number 998, page 20:

     After a ten-year dividend hiatus, shareholder payments only re-started in July 2022.

3. An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
4. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
   • 2012, Chinle Miller, “The Tectonic Forces of the Mesozoic”, in In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition, page 33:

     The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regional hiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma.

5. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.

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

6. (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.

   Coordinate terms: diphthong, synizesis

   • 1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC:

     A hiatus is agreeable to any Polynesian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered.

派生語

アナグラム

• Atushi, hutias

語源

From hiō +‎ -tus.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [hiˈaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [iˈaː.tus]

名詞

hiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension

1. a hiatus, opening (especially of the mouth), gap, aperture, cleft

   Synonyms: rīma, rictus

2. a longing, desire

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

同意語

• hiantia

派生した語

• → Catalan: hiat
• → English: hiatus
• → French: hiatus
• → Italian: iato
• → Portuguese: hiato
• → Romanian: hiat
• → Spanish: hiato

参照

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hiatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.