respiration

English

Etymology

From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respiratio, respirationis, from respirare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛspɪˈɹeɪʃən/
• Hyphenation: res‧pi‧ra‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

respiration (countable and uncountable, 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
• cellular respiration

Related terms

• respire

Translations

breathing

• Assamese: উশাহ-নিশাহ (uxah-nixah)
• Chinese: 呼吸 (hūxī)
• Czech: dýchání (cs) n
• Dutch: ademhaling (nl)
• Finnish: hengitys (fi)
• French: respiration (fr) f
• German: Atmung (de)
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)
• Irish: riospráid f
• Italian: respirazione (it) f
• Korean: 숨쉬기 (sumswigi)

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

exchange of gases

• German: Veratmung f
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)

• Tagalog: palahingahan

process of biological energy extraction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸作用

• Finnish: soluhengitys (fi)
• Maori: tukupūngao

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

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Translations to be checked

• Vietnamese: Hô hấp

See also

• circulatory system
• pulmonary circulation

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin respiratio, respirationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

respiration f (plural respirations)

1. respiration

Related terms

• respirer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• piraterions, repaitrions, repaîtrions, repatriions