respiration

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Middle English respiracioun, from Latin respiratio, from respirare.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Wikipedia

respiration (plural respirations)

1. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
2. An act of breathing; a breath.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 76:

     Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.

3. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
4. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

Derived terms

• artificial respiration

Translations

breathing

• Chinese: 呼吸 hūxī
• Czech: dýchání n
• Dutch: ademhaling (nl)
• Finnish: hengitys
• French: respiration (fr) f
• German: Atmung (de)
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoí)
• Irish: riospráid f
• Italian: respirazione (it) f
• Korean: 숨쉬기 (sumswigi)
• Kurdish: hanasa

• Latvian: elpošana f, dvašošana f
• Norwegian: åndedrett n
• Portuguese: respiração (pt) f
• Russian: дыхание (ru) n (dyxanije)
• Spanish: respiración (es)
• Swedish: andning (sv) c, respiration (sv) c
• Tagalog: paghinga
• Telugu: శ్వాసక్రియ (śvāsakriya)
• Turkish: solunum (tr)
• Volapük: natemam (vo)

exchange of gases

• German: Veratmung f

• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoí)

process of biological energy extraction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸作用

• Finnish: soluhengitys

• Swedish: cellandning c
• Turkish: solunum (tr)

• Vietnamese: Hô hấp

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French

Etymology

From Latin respiratio, from respirare.

Pronunciation

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Noun

respiration f (plural respirations)

1. respiration

Anagrams

• piraterions, repaitrions, repaîtrions, repatriions

External links

• “respiration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).