respirar

Inherited from Latin respīrāre.

respirar (first-person singular indicative present respiro, past participle respiráu)

1. to breathe

   Synonym: alendar

• respiratoriu

Inherited from Latin respīrāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəs.piˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [res.piˈɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

respirar (first-person singular present respiro, first-person singular preterite respirí, past participle respirat)

1. to breathe

• respirador

• “respirar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “respirar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “respirar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “respirar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin respīrāre.

respirar (first-person singular present respiro, first-person singular preterite respirei, past participle respirado)

1. to breathe

• “respirar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from English respire, French respirer, German respirieren, Italian respirare, Spanish respirar, from Latin respīrō. Compare Esperanto spiri.

respirar (present tense respiras, past tense respiris, future tense respiros, imperative respirez, conditional respirus)

1. (ambitransitive) to breathe

respirar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of respirare

Inherited from Old Spanish respirar, from Latin respīrāre. Cognate with English respire.

respirar (Hebrew spelling ריספיראר)^[1]

1. (ambitransitive) to breathe (draw in air and let it out)
   • 2018, Laura Papo Bohoreta, edited by María José Cano, Nela Kovačević, La mujer sefardí‎^[1], Editorial Universidad de Granada, →ISBN, page 86:

     I alora estos dos, tan mansevos, ja espozos, đenitores, respiravan un poko mas kontentes!

     So these two, being young, now married fathers, breathed a little more easily!

2. (figurative, reflexive) to be inspirational
   • 1987, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[2], numbers 32-40, page 43:

     Veo las fachas koreladas de la kalor del karvon i del eksitamiento por las muevas — viejas konsejas ke se gostavan, ke se respiravan i se azian muestras.

     I see the faces red from heated coal and excited by the news — old tales that were pleasing, inspirational and becoming ours.

From Old Occitan respirar, from Latin respīrāre.

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respirar

1. to breathe

• respiracion

From Latin respīrāre.

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• Hyphenation: res‧pi‧rar

respirar (first-person singular present respiro, first-person singular preterite respirei, past participle respirado)

1. (ambitransitive) to breathe
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• respirador

• “respirar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “respirar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “respirar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “respirar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “respirar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “respirar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• respirer (Puter)

From Latin respīrō, respīrāre.

respirar

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) to breathe

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) fladar
• (Rumantsch Grischun) trair flad, trair il flad
• (Sursilvan) trer flad
• (Sutsilvan) trer flo
• (Surmiran) trer igl flo
• (Puter) trer fled, trer il fled
• (Vallader) trar il flà

Inherited from Old Spanish respirar, from Latin respīrāre. Cognate with English respire.

• IPA^(key): /respiˈɾaɾ/ [res.piˈɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: res‧pi‧rar

respirar (first-person singular present respiro, first-person singular preterite respiré, past participle respirado)

1. to breathe

• “respirar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024