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
3. period (menstruation)
4. (grammar) a sentence consisting of one or more clauses; an autonomous structure centered on one or more verbs or verbal phrases and their necessary complements, with its end indicated by a pause (in speech) or punctuation (in writing).

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).

• “período”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “período”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “período”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “período”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

• periodo

Learned borrowing from New Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• poderío