aspiro
Asturian
Verb
aspiro
- first-person singular present indicative of aspirar
Catalan
Verb
aspiro
- first-person singular present indicative of aspirar
Galician
Verb
aspiro
- first-person singular present indicative of aspirar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /asˈpi.ro/
- Rhymes: -iro
- Hyphenation: a‧spì‧ro
Verb
aspiro
- first-person singular present indicative of aspirare
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ad- + spīrō (“breathe”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [asˈpiː.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [asˈpiː.ro]
Verb
aspīrō (present infinitive aspīrāre, perfect active aspīrāvī, supine aspīrātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) to breathe or blow upon
- (intransitive) to be favorable to, assist, favor, aid
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.2–4:
- […] dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa)
adspīrāte meīs prīmāque ab orīgine mundī
ad mea perpetuum dēdūcite tempora carmen!- O gods, favor my undertakings (for you have changed them too), and lead my uninterrupted song down from the first origin of the world to my times!
- […] dī, coeptīs (nam vōs mūtāstis et illa)
- (intransitive) to aspire or desire (to); approach, come near (to)
- (intransitive, with dative) to aspirate (follow a consonant with an audible puff of breath)
- (transitive) to breathe or blow upon, infuse, instill
- (transitive, of the sea) to wash
Conjugation
Conjugation of aspīrō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Danish: aspirere
- → Dutch: aspireren
- → English: aspirate, aspire
- Esperanto: aspiri
- → Finnish: aspiroida
- French: aspirer
- Galician: aspirar
- → German: aspirieren
- Ido: aspirar
- Interlingua: aspirar
- Italian: aspirare
- → Norwegian Bokmål: aspirere
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: aspirera, aspirere
- Occitan: aspirar
- Portuguese: aspirar
- Romanian: aspira
- → Serbo-Croatian: аспири́рати/aspirírati
- → Slovene: aspirirati
- Spanish: aspirar
- → Swedish: aspirera
References
- “aspiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aspiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aspiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
aspiro
- first-person singular present indicative of aspirar
Spanish
Verb
aspiro
- first-person singular present indicative of aspirar