respiration

English

Etymology

From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛspɪˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: res‧pi‧ra‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

respiration (countable and uncountable, plural respirations)

2. (uncountable) The process of inhaling and exhaling.

   Synonyms: breathing, ventilation

   • 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎^[1], Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:

     In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […]

4. (countable) An act of breathing: a single breath.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 76:

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

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

   Near-synonym: metabolism

Derived terms

• abdominal respiration
• agonal respiration
• artificial respiration
• ataxic respiration
• Biot's respiration
• cellular respiration
• chlororespiration
• cluster respiration
• Kussmaul respiration
• photorespiration
• respirational

Related terms

• respire

Translations

breathing

• Amharic: ትንፈሳ (tənfäsa), መተንፈስ (mätänfäs), ትንፋሽ (tənfaš)
• Assamese: উশাহ-নিশাহ (uxah-nixah)
• Azerbaijani: tənəffüs
• Bulgarian: дишане (bg) n (dišane)
• Catalan: respiració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸 (zh) (hūxī)

• Czech: dýchání (cs) n, respirace f
• Dutch: ademhaling (nl)
• Esperanto: spirado
• Finnish: hengitys (fi)
• French: respiration (fr) f
• German: Atmung (de)
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)
• Hindi: श्वसन (hi) m (śvasan)
• Hungarian: légzés (hu), lélegzés (hu), lélegzetvétel (hu)
• Indonesian: respirasi (id), pernapasan (id)
• Irish: riospráid f
• Italian: respirazione (it) f
• Japanese: 呼吸 (ja) (こきゅう, kokyū)
• Korean: 숨쉬기 (sumswigi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hanasa (ku)

• Latvian: elpošana f, dvašošana f
• Macedonian: ди́шење n (díšenje)
• Norwegian: åndedrett n
• Polish: oddychanie (pl) 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)
• Zazaki: tenefus

exchange of gases

• Bulgarian: дъх (bg) m (dǎh)
• German: Veratmung f
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: henase (ku)

• Macedonian: здив m (zdiv)
• Polish: oddychanie (pl) n
• Tagalog: palahingahan

process of biological energy extraction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸作用 (hūxī zuòyòng)

• Finnish: soluhengitys (fi)
• Hungarian: légzés (hu)
• Indonesian: respirasi (id)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: henase (ku)

• Māori: tukupūngao
• Polish: oddychanie (pl) n
• 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

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin respirātiō. By surface analysis, respirer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

respiration f (plural respirations)

1. respiration

   respiration artificielle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

• inspiration
• expiration

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• piraterions, repaitrions, repaîtrions, repatriions