PAUSE Copy link • PAUSE 1. s. intermissio (a cessation for a time; intermission): in tervallum (space between beginning and end): distinctio (in music): reticentia (when one is about to speak but refrains): intercapedo (interval between breaking off or suspending an action and resuming it; e.g., intercapedinem scribendi facere; intercapedo canendi): respiratio, mora (delay): ☞ pausa is an obsolete word, not found in the best prose; cessatio is = inactivity: after a pause, mora quadam interposita: there is often a pause even in the most active life, ab actione saepe fit intermissio (not remissio): to make a pause; Vid. PAUSE, v. 2. v. moram facere, interponere (general term): ☞ not pausam facere or pausare. In speaking, paullum respirare; intervallo or intervallis dicere: not to make a pause, sine intervallis loqui (after Cic., De Or., 3, 48, 185, where we find sine intervallis loquacitas); also, uno tenore dicere (to speak without intermission). (In reading), distinguere (to observe the proper stops). (In singing), intermittere. (In drinking), intermittere; e.g., bibunt aves quaedam intermittentes.