spiramen

From spirō (“breathe, respire; live”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /spiːˈraː.men/, [s̠piːˈräːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spiˈra.men/, [spiˈräːmen]

spīrāmen n (genitive spīrāminis); third declension

1. breathing hole, air hole, vent, thrill
2. (figuratively) breathing, blowing

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• (air hole, vent): spīrāculum

• “spiramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spiramen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• spiramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.