respiro
Asturian
Catalan
Pronunciation
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈspi.ro/
- Rhymes: -iro
- Hyphenation: re‧spì‧ro
Related terms
Further reading
- respiro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /resˈpiː.roː/, [rɛs̠ˈpiːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /resˈpi.ro/, [resˈpiːro]
Verb
respīrō (present infinitive respīrāre, perfect active respīrāvī, supine respīrātum); first conjugation
- (literal, transitive) to blow or breathe back; to breathe out, exhale
- (transferred sense, intransitive)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- respīrāculum
- respīrāmen
- respīrāmentum
- respīrātiō
- respīrātus
Descendants
References
- “respiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “respiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- respiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to recover from one's fright: a metu respirare (Cluent. 70. 200)
- to recover from one's fright: a metu respirare (Cluent. 70. 200)
Portuguese
Romanian
Declension
References
- respiro in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /resˈpiɾo/ [resˈpi.ɾo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -iɾo
- Syllabification: res‧pi‧ro
Etymology 1
Deverbal from respirar.
Noun
respiro m (plural respiros)
- breath
- break, respite, breather, relief, reprieve, rest
- ¡Dame un respiro! ― Give me a break!
- Dale un respiro. ― Give it a rest.
- breathing room, breathing space, slack
- Dale un respiro. Ella está realmente tratando de cambiar.
- Cut her some slack. She's really trying to change.
Related terms
Further reading
- “respiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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