Pose

Morpheme

Pose

Type

free base

Denotation

halt, cease, pause, rest

Etymology

Middle English posen; Old French poser (influenced by Latin positus, from pōnere); Latin pausāre, from pausa; Ancient Greek paûsis, from paúein

Evidence

malpose, posable, pose, poseable, posed, poser, poses, poseur, posing, posingly, purpose, purposeful, purposefully, purposeless, purposely, purposer, purposive, unposable, unpose, unposed, unposes, unposed

Notes

pose and pause are doublets

Doublet

Pause

See Also

Pause

Homographs

Pose, Pose