🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

interludio

Pronunciation / Transliteration: interˈluːdjo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Interlude/ˈɪn.tə.luːd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"C'è stato un breve interludio di silenzio."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An intervening period of time, event, or scene.

    "A brief interlude of peace followed the stormy debate."
  2. 2

    A piece of music played between other pieces or between the acts of a play.

    "The organist played a gentle interlude during the church service."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the late Latin medieval term 'interludium', combining 'inter-' (between) and 'ludus' (play, game). Entering English in the 15th century, it originally referred to a theatrical entertainment performed between the parts of a longer play before broadening to mean any intervening period or event.

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