suspirar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese sospirar, from Latin suspīrāre, present active infinitive of suspīrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suspiˈɾaɾ/

Verb

1. (archaic) to inhale, to breathe
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 466:

     Et caýo sóbrelo leyto, en gisa que todos coydauã que era morto, en gisa que el nõ sospiraua, nẽ bafeiaua nẽ ponto.

     And he fell over the bed in a way that everyone thought that he was dead, as he was neither inhaling nor exhaling, not even a bit

2. to sigh

   Synonym: salaiar

Related terms

• suspiro

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “suspir”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “suspirar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Interlingua

Verb

suspirar

1. to sigh

Conjugation

    Conjugation of suspirar

infinitive		suspirar
participle		present	perfect
		suspirante	suspirate
active		simple	perfect
	present	suspira	ha suspirate
	past	suspirava	habeva suspirate
	future	suspirara	habera suspirate
	conditional	suspirarea	haberea suspirate
	imperative	suspira

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese suspirar, sospirar, from Latin suspīrāre, present active infinitive of suspīrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suʃ.pi.ˈɾaɾ/
• Hyphenation: sus‧pi‧rar

Verb

1. to sigh

Related terms

• suspiro

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin suspirāre, present active infinitive of suspirō. Cognate with English suspire.

Verb

1. to sigh

Related terms

• suspiro