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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1190/
- Published: 2023-05-03T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-02-26T17:37:17.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

hiatus (noun):

1a: a break in or as if in a material object : gap  
 b *biology* : a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ  
2a: an interruption in time or continuity : break  
especially : a period when something (such as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted  
 b: the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound – as in, well, hiatus

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hiatus?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : While the word now most often refers to a temporary pause, hiatus originally referred to a physical opening in something, such as the mouth of a cave, or, as the 18th century British novelist Laurence Sterne would have it, a sartorial gap: in the wildly experimental novel Tristram Shandy, Sterne wrote of “the hiatus in Phutatorius’s breeches.” Hiatus comes from the Latin verb hiare, meaning “to open wide,” which makes it a distant relation of both yawn and chasm.

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