Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
Proto-Hellenic *hodós
Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (perĭ́odos)lbor.
Medieval Latin periodusbor.
Middle French periodebor.
Middle English periode
English period
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Meanings
(not-comparable) Designating anything from a given historical era.
Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days. 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: St Bees, Cumbria”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 57:
a period TV commercial
a period car
(not-comparable) Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy. 2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
Proto-Hellenic *hodós
Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (perĭ́odos)lbor.
Medieval Latin periodusbor.
Middle French periodebor.
Middle English periode
English period
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Meanings
(Canada, US) That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.
I'm the GOAT, point blank period!
I know you don't want to go to the dentist, but your teeth need to be checked, period!
gl e punto (Interjection) · mi ka mutu! (Interjection) · fa والسلام (Interjection) · de da ist nichts zu machen (Interjection) · sl in pika (Interjection) · pl i kropka! (Interjection) · de keine Widerrede (Interjection) · ro și punct (Interjection) · sv punkt och slut (Interjection) · sv och därmed basta (Interjection) · ca i punt (Interjection) · fr point (Interjection) · bg и точка (Interjection) · de Schluss, aus, Ende (Interjection) · es y punto (Interjection) · ru и то́чка (Interjection) · sv punkt (Interjection) · hy վերջ (Interjection) · el τελεία και παύλα (Interjection) · de basta (Interjection) · da punktum (Interjection) · hu pont! (Interjection) · de Punktum (Interjection) · fr point final (Interjection) · fr un point c'est tout (Interjection) · ms habis cerita! (Interjection) · my ကာလ (Interjection) · de Punkt. Aus. Ende (Interjection) · da basta (Interjection) · mk и точка (Interjection) · de und damit basta (Interjection) · fr point barre (Interjection) · pt ponto (Interjection) · pt ponto final (Interjection) · fi piste (Interjection) · nl punt uit (Interjection) · cs a tečka! (Interjection)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
Proto-Hellenic *hodós
Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (perĭ́odos)lbor.
Medieval Latin periodusbor.
Middle French periodebor.
Middle English periode
English period
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Meanings
A length of time.
You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time." 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period. 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 235:
Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
(Canada, Philippines, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’ 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 299:
(figuratively) A decisive end to something; a stop.
My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
(euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
(euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this. ▸ The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
I have math class in second period.
Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
They won in the first overtime period.
(obsolete) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
(archaic) An end or conclusion; the final point of a process, a state, an event, etc.
All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 203:
And if my death might make this island happy,
And prove the period of their tyranny,
I would expend it with all willingness: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 1:
Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill
The last sand make his Period. 1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, London: Humphrey Moseley, act III, scene 5, page 51:
When Loue thus in his Center ends,
Desire and Hope, his inward friends
Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe,
The weakest giuers of reliefe,
Stand in his councell as the chiefe:
And now he to his period brought,
From Loue becomes some other thought. 1629, John Beaumont, “A Description of Love”, in Bosworth-field with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, London: Henry Seile, page 100:
[…]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period[…] a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Advent Sunday Dooms-Day Book: Or, Christ’s Advent to Judgement”, in Ἐνιαυτος: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays Of the Year, London: R. Norton, published 1673, page 8:
As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […] 1590, Robert Greene, “The Shepheards Tale”, in Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, page 17:
So ſpake th’ Archangel Michael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds great period ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d. 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1537–1539:
(rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
Periods are beautiful when they are not too long. 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:
He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved. 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […] 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic! 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding. 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games. 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad, Book IV (note 125)
A row in the periodic table of the elements.
A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
These fossils are from the Jurassic period.
Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens. 1988 April 1, “Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system”, in Neuron, volume 1, number 2, page 141:
Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
Forms
Spelling
Features
Labels
Source
periods
Number=Plur
lexicographic
per.
Abbr=Yes
alternative
lexicographic
Antonyms
frequency (antonym(s) of “length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon”)
nb periode (length of time during which something repeats) · fa-ira مُدَّت (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · el περίοδος (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · cmn 。 (punctation mark “.”) · fr période (division of sports match) · sv period (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tl puktol (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ru пери́од (division of sports match) · sv punkt (punctation mark “.”) · nb periode (interval of time) · tl tuldok (punctation mark “.”) · hu játékrész (division of sports match) · et punkt (punctation mark “.”) · ur ۔ (punctation mark “.”) · sl doba (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · vi tiết (division of school day) · nl periode (interval of time) · pl period (rhetoric: complete sentence) · es período (length of time during which something repeats) · pl period (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · da time (division of school day) · ur کال (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ca període (interval of time) · hu korszak (section of an artist's career) · tl takda (length of time during which something repeats) · he תּוֹר (geochronologic unit) · cmn 時代 /时代 (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sq periudhë (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fi kausi (section of an artist's career) · sl obdobje (section of an artist's career) · hu időtartam (interval of time) · prs دَورَه (interval of time) · sl obdobje (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sh перѝод (interval of time) · th ตอน (interval of time) · sk perióda (length of time during which something repeats) · fi kausi (geochronologic unit) · sh rázdōblje (interval of time) · ha ɗigo (punctation mark “.”) · fr point (punctation mark “.”) · ur خَتْمَہ (punctation mark “.”) · nb æra (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fi lause (rhetoric: complete sentence) · alt ӧйлик (interval of time) · sq periodike (length of time during which something repeats) · ky чекит (punctation mark “.”) · sv period (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · hi काल (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fi ajanjakso (interval of time) · fi aika (interval of time) · he נְקֻדָּה (punctation mark “.”) · hu periódus (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · hu kor (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fi päätepiste (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · hu fázis (length of time during which something repeats) · sv period (geochronologic unit) · it periodo (interval of time) · fi ajanjakso (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fi aika (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · pt período (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tr dönem (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · lt taškas (punctation mark “.”) · hu körmondat (rhetoric: complete sentence) · pt período (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · ru промежу́ток (interval of time) · ko 기 (geochronologic unit) · hu vég (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · bg то́чка (punctation mark “.”) · uk пері́од (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sh rázdōblje (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · mrw ayatan (punctation mark “.”) · el ώρα (division of school day) · mk перио́д (interval of time) · es período (geochronologic unit) · hi विराम (punctation mark “.”) · bg час (division of school day) · ur دَور (interval of time) · es período (division of sports match) · ru пери́од (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ja 周期 (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · fi tunti (division of school day) · fi jakso (length of time during which something repeats) · hu korszak (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · cs období (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · prs نُقْطَه (punctation mark “.”) · sh та̏чка (punctation mark “.”) · sh perìod (interval of time) · hi । (punctation mark “.”) · sh dȏba (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · el περίοδος (interval of time) · nl periode (length of time during which something repeats) · ar مَرْحَلَة زَمْنِيَّة (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · pt aula (division of school day) · ja 周期 (length of time during which something repeats) · hy ժամանակահատված (interval of time) · lt laikotarpis (interval of time) · hu óra (division of school day) · gd ùine (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fi jakso (interval of time) · pl okres (geochronologic unit) · pt série (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · is punktur (punctation mark “.”) · hu periódusos sor (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · hu időszak (interval of time) · hu tanóra (division of school day) · fr période (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ja ピリオド (punctation mark “.”) · es periodo (geochronologic unit) · ar حِين (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · de System (geochronologic unit) · ar حَدَث مُتَكَرِّر (length of time during which something repeats) · prs مُدَّت (interval of time) · es hora (division of school day) · it periodo (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ru уро́к (division of school day) · hu lezárás (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · uz muddat (interval of time) · hy վերջակետ (punctation mark “.”) · nl periode (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sl pika (punctation mark “.”) · ar فَتْرَة (interval of time) · sh то̏чка (punctation mark “.”) · gd ùine (length of time during which something repeats) · cmn 時期 /时期 (interval of time) · sh tȁčka (punctation mark “.”) · hu pont (punctation mark “.”) · pl lekcja (division of school day) · mk перио́д (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fa-ira مُدَّت (interval of time) · fr système (geochronologic unit) · el περίοδος (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · de Periode (interval of time) · eo periodo (interval of time) · sl ura (division of school day) · sk obdobie (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · nb punktum (punctation mark “.”) · ja 終止符 (punctation mark “.”) · fi jakso (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · ar مُدَّة (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · mn цэг (punctation mark “.”) · hu idő (interval of time) · hu lezajlási idő (length of time for a disease to run its course) · sa । (punctation mark “.”) · hi युग (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · pt período (division of school day) · es periodo (length of time during which something repeats) · pt período (interval of time) · es periodo (interval of time) · ja 紀 (geochronologic unit) · sw muda (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · de Stunde (division of school day) · pl period (interval of time) · el περίοδος (division of sports match) · hu befejezés (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · es periodo (division of sports match) · da punktum (punctation mark “.”) · sh чȁс (division of school day) · ht peryòd (interval of time) · sh ра́здо̄бље (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · be кро́пка (punctation mark “.”) · fa-ira دُورِه (interval of time) · kk кезең (interval of time) · uk кра́пка (punctation mark “.”) · fa-ira دُورِه (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · he תְּקוּפָה (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · he תְּקוּפָה (interval of time) · de Epoche (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ml കാലഘട്ടം (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sk perióda (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tl takda (interval of time) · hu kor (geochronologic unit) · da modul (division of school day) · tg муддат (interval of time) · hi दंड (punctation mark “.”) · eo punkto (punctation mark “.”) · th จุด (punctation mark “.”) · hu félidő (division of sports match) · it punto (punctation mark “.”) · ru пери́од (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · hu határ (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · sh перѝод (length of time during which something repeats) · ar حِصَّةٌ (division of school day) · sk obdobie (interval of time) · ga peiriad (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · lv laikmets (interval of time) · bg перио́д (length of time during which something repeats) · hy փուլ (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · az nöqtə (punctation mark “.”) · cs období (interval of time) · es periodo (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · gl período (interval of time) · kk нүкте (punctation mark “.”) · he נקודה (punctation mark “.”) · prs مُدَّت (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ru пери́од (length of time during which something repeats) · de Zeitraum (interval of time) · sh perìod (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · be пэры́яд (interval of time) · fi jaksonaika (length of time during which something repeats) · be праме́жак (interval of time) · sl perioda (length of time during which something repeats) · ja 時限 (division of school day) · pl cykl (length of time during which something repeats) · el τελεία (punctation mark “.”) · fr période (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · da period (interval of time) · hy ժամականաշրջան (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ug دەۋر (interval of time) · lv punkts (punctation mark “.”) · ar نُقْطَة (punctation mark “.”) · ar فَتْرَة (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ar مُدَّة (interval of time) · vi giai đoạn (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · hu periódus (length of time during which something repeats) · sh ра́здо̄бље (interval of time) · yi פּונקט (punctation mark “.”) · ro perioadă (interval of time) · mi takiwā (interval of time) · sl perioda (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · de Periode (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · grc περίοδος (interval of time) · fi period-geeni (genetics: type of gene) · hu ciklus (length of time during which something repeats) · gd àm (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sq pikë (punctation mark “.”) · ja 期間 (interval of time) · tr devir (interval of time) · ur مُدَّت (interval of time) · sl obdobje (interval of time) · sw nukta (punctation mark “.”) · ar عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة (punctation mark “.”) · id masa (interval of time) · kk кезең (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · prs دَورَه (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sh perìod (length of time during which something repeats) · ru то́чка (punctation mark “.”) · de Punkt (punctation mark “.”) · uz davr (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · pl okres (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · ja 句点 (punctation mark “.”) · tg давра (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · da lektion (division of school day) · ar عَصْر (geochronologic unit) · pt tempo (division of sports match) · ko 주기 (length of time during which something repeats) · pdt Punkt (punctation mark “.”) · fi erä (division of sports match) · fi kestoaika (length of time for a disease to run its course) · pt ponto final (punctation mark “.”) · pl okres (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tg нуқта (punctation mark “.”) · pt período (length of time during which something repeats) · cmn 句號 /句号 (punctation mark “.”) · uz davr (interval of time) · es período (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · cmn 週期 /周期 (length of time during which something repeats) · id masa (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · id masa (length of time during which something repeats) · sh до̑ба (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sh čȁs (division of school day) · pl okres (interval of time) · sw muda (length of time during which something repeats) · ar عَصْر (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ta முற்றுப்புள்ளி (punctation mark “.”) · it periodo (length of time during which something repeats) · tl panahon (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · nl punt (punctation mark “.”) · fi hetki (specific moment during a process) · cs tečka (punctation mark “.”) · ko 종지부 (punctation mark “.”) · ru пери́од (geochronologic unit) · bg перио́д (interval of time) · nb periode (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ky доор (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tl puktol (section of an artist's career) · uk про́міжок (interval of time) · es período (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ro punct (punctation mark “.”) · mk точка (punctation mark “.”) · de Zeitraum (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · sh tȍčka (punctation mark “.”) · cmn 句點 /句点 (punctation mark “.”) · fr point final (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · fi periodi (music: two phrases) · es periodo (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · es punto (punctation mark “.”) · ur دَور (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ja 時代 (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fa-ira نُقْطِه (punctation mark “.”) · th มหัพภาค (punctation mark “.”) · tg муддат (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · es período (interval of time) · ka წერტილი (punctation mark “.”) · hu lezárulás (end or conclusion; final point of a process) · hu időszak (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ru цикл (length of time during which something repeats) · fr période (interval of time) · hi पूर्ण विराम (punctation mark “.”) · hy պարբերություն (length of time during which something repeats) · pl okres (music: two phrases) · sa दंड (punctation mark “.”) · vi thời kì (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · pl okres (rhetoric: complete sentence) · ru пери́од (interval of time) · vi kỉ (geochronologic unit) · gd stad-phuing (punctation mark “.”) · ca període (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · hi अवधि (length of time during which something repeats) · bg епо́ха (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ro perioadă (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ug چېكىت (punctation mark “.”) · mk раздобје (interval of time) · la aetas (interval of time) · uk пері́од (interval of time) · pl kropka (punctation mark “.”) · hu korszak (geochronologic unit) · az müddət (interval of time) · fr période (length of time during which something repeats) · hy կետ (punctation mark “.”) · kk кезең (geochronologic unit) · ota دوره (interval of time) · sw zamani (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · fr cycle (length of time during which something repeats) · fi piste (punctation mark “.”) · fi ajankohta (specific moment during a process) · sv period (interval of time) · ko 기간 (interval of time) · sh перѝод (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ko 마침표 (punctation mark “.”) · cy cyfnod (chemistry: row in the periodic table) · ko 시대 (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tsg jaman (interval of time) · sv tidsperiod (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · pt ponto (punctation mark “.”) · sk bodka (punctation mark “.”) · hu periódus (music: two phrases) · cs perioda (length of time during which something repeats) · fo punktum (punctation mark “.”) · uz nuqta (punctation mark “.”) · ja 。 (punctation mark “.”) · tg давра (interval of time) · pt período (geochronologic unit) · hy շրջան (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · hi अवधि (interval of time) · sq periudhë (interval of time) · et periood (interval of time) · ky мезгил (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · be перы́яд (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · ckb دەم (history: period of time seen as coherent entity) · tr nokta (punctation mark “.”) · el περίοδος (length of time during which something repeats) · cmn 紀 /纪 (geochronologic unit) · sh perioda (chemistry: row in the periodic table)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
Proto-Hellenic *hodós
Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
Ancient Greek περῐ́οδος (perĭ́odos)lbor.
Medieval Latin periodusbor.
Middle French periodebor.
Middle English periode
English period
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “circuit, orbit, a recurring interval of time, path around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English tīd (“time, period, season”), as well as Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Meanings
(intransitive, obsolete) To come to a period; to conclude.
For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied. 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To put an end to.
(colloquial) To menstruate; to excrete menstrual blood.