expirans

Present participle of expīrō

expīrāns (genitive expīrantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. exhaling
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.44–45:

     “illum expīrantem trānsfīxō pectore flammās
     turbine corripuit scopulōque īnfīxit acūtō.”

     “That one exhaling flames from [his] pierced chest [after] she grabbed [him] up in a whirlwind and impaled [him] on a pointed rock.”
     (What is described in line 44 occurs after line 45, an example of hysteron proteron; i.e., Ajax the Lesser dies after Athena strikes him down. Here, “expirantem” may be understood as “exhaling” fire as well as “expiring” with a dying breath.)

2. expiring, dying

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.