Hiatus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·pl of Hiatus.

II. Hiatus ·noun The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

III. Hiatus ·noun An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; ·esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

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hiatus
hĭātus, ūs, m. [hio], an opening, aperture, cleft (class. in sing. and plur.; cf. rima, rictus). I ...

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hiatus
hiātus ūs, m hio, an opening, aperture, cleft : oris: terrenus, O.: atris inmanis hiatibus Hydra, ...

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