soprar

Betekenis (Engels)

1. to blow
2. to whisper

Met koppelteken als

so‧prar

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/soˈpɾa(ʁ)/

Etymologie (Engels)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese soprar, *soplar, probably a semi-learned term derived from Latin sufflāre (“to blow, to puff up, to inflate”). Alternatively, from Vulgar Latin *supplāre, *sopplāre.
Cognate with Galician soprar, Spanish soplar and Venetian supiar.