sospirare

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to sigh
  2. (intransitive) to pine
  3. (intransitive, transitive) to yearn, to long
  4. (intransitive, literary) to breeze, to blow gently
  5. (broadly, transitive) to anxiously await
  6. (archaic, literary, transitive) to mourn

Synonyms

tirare un sospiro

avere nostalgia

amare ardentemente

mandare un sospiro

Frequency

43k
Hyphenated as
so‧spi‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sos.piˈra.re/
Etymology

From Latin suspīrāre.

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