aliento
alentar
- (transitive) to encourage, animate
- (reflexive) to gather up one's courage
- (Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican-Republic, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto-Rico, Venezuela, colloquial, intransitive, pronominal) to recuperate; to recover from an illness.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧lien‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈljento/
Etymology
Probably a deverbal from alentar. The diphthong /je/ complicates a direct inheritance from Latin anhēlitus.
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haleine
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anima
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