spirare

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to blow, to breeze
  2. (literary, transitive) to emanate, to exhale
  3. (figuratively, poetic, transitive) to inspire
  4. (archaic, intransitive, poetic, transitive) to breathe

Hyphenated as
spi‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/spiˈra.re/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin spīrāre (“to breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-.

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