período

período m (plural períodos)

1. period (interval of time)

• Hyphenation: pe‧rí‧o‧do

período m (plural períodos)

1. period (time)
2. (Portugal) a school year interval (in pre-university education) of approximately three months, the first running from the beginning of the school year in September, until Christmas, the second from Christmas to Easter, and the third from Easter to the end of the school year in June

Despite the orthography, in Portugal, the word is most often pronounced with the stress falling on the first o, even in careful speech (i.e. as if spelt periúdo).

• periodo

Borrowed from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περί- (perí-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).

• IPA^(key): /peˈɾiodo/ [peˈɾi.o.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -iodo
• Syllabification: pe‧rí‧o‧do

período m (plural períodos)

1. period (a length of time)

   Synonyms: época, era

   Hypernym: tiempo

2. (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years)

• The sense "period, menstrual cycle" applies only to the alternative form periodo.[1]

• “período”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• poderío