aspirer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English aspire

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English aspirer

From aspire + -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

aspirer (plural aspirers)

1. One who aspires to something.
   • 2007 October 4, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Yet as the Rapunzel-editor in her high tower, she said, she had begun to feel walled off from the legions of aspirers.

Synonyms

• wannabe

Anagrams

• Rapiers, pairers, parries, praiser, rapiers, raspier, repairs

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.pi.ʁe/

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Verb

aspirer

1. (intransitive, followed by à) to aspire (to wait, to long)
2. (transitive) to aspirate (to produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant)
3. (transitive) to inhale, to breathe in or out
4. (transitive) to extract, to suck up

   Il a aspiré la poussière.

   He vacuumed the dust up. / He vacuumed up the dust.

Conjugation

Conjugation of aspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aspirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aspirant /as.pi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aspiré /as.pi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aspire /as.piʁ/	aspires /as.piʁ/	aspire /as.piʁ/	aspirons /as.pi.ʁɔ̃/	aspirez /as.pi.ʁe/	aspirent /as.piʁ/
	imperfect	aspirais /as.pi.ʁɛ/	aspirais /as.pi.ʁɛ/	aspirait /as.pi.ʁɛ/	aspirions /as.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	aspiriez /as.pi.ʁje/	aspiraient /as.pi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	aspirai /as.pi.ʁe/	aspiras /as.pi.ʁa/	aspira /as.pi.ʁa/	aspirâmes /as.pi.ʁam/	aspirâtes /as.pi.ʁat/	aspirèrent /as.pi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	aspirerai /as.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	aspireras /as.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	aspirera /as.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	aspirerons /as.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	aspirerez /as.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	aspireront /as.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aspirerais /as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	aspirerais /as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	aspirerait /as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	aspirerions /as.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	aspireriez /as.pi.ʁə.ʁje/	aspireraient /as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	aspire /as.piʁ/	aspires /as.piʁ/	aspire /as.piʁ/	aspirions /as.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	aspiriez /as.pi.ʁje/	aspirent /as.piʁ/
	imperfect2	aspirasse /as.pi.ʁas/	aspirasses /as.pi.ʁas/	aspirât /as.pi.ʁa/	aspirassions /as.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	aspirassiez /as.pi.ʁa.sje/	aspirassent /as.pi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aspire /as.piʁ/	—	aspirons /as.pi.ʁɔ̃/	aspirez /as.pi.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• aspirant
• aspirateur
• aspiration
• aspirationnel
• expiration
• expirer
• inspiration
• inspirationnel
• inspirer
• respiration
• respirer

See also

• muet

Further reading

• “aspirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• périras, praires, prieras, reprisa, respira, riperas

Latin

Verb

aspīrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aspīrō