suspiro
See also: suspiró
Galician
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /susˈpiː.roː/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈpiːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /susˈpi.ro/, [susˈpiːro]
Verb
suspīrō (present infinitive suspīrāre, perfect active suspīrāvī, supine suspīrātum); first conjugation
- to sigh, utter with a sigh
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.417:
- hanc cupit, hanc optat, sōla suspīrat in illā
- Her he desires — her he longs after — for her alone he sighs
1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 28.
- Her he desires — her he longs after — for her alone he sighs
- hanc cupit, hanc optat, sōla suspīrat in illā
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: suschir, suschirari
- Catalan: sospirar
- English: suspire, suspiral, cesspool
- French: soupirer
- Friulian: suspirâ
- Galician: suspirar
- Italian: sospirare
- Norman: soupither
- Occitan: sospirar
- Old Occitan: sospirar
- Piedmontese: sospiré
- Portuguese: suspirar
- Romanian: suspina, suspinare
- Romansch: suspirar, suspirer, suspürar
- Spanish: suspirar
- Venetian: sospirar
Further reading
- “suspiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suspiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suspiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /susˈpi.ɾu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /suʃˈpi.ɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /susˈpi.ɾo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /suʃˈpi.ɾu/
- Hyphenation: sus‧pi‧ro
Noun
suspiro m (plural suspiros)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /susˈpiɾo/ [susˈpi.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -iɾo
- Syllabification: sus‧pi‧ro
Noun
suspiro m (plural suspiros)
- sigh
- (by extension, colloquial) instant (brief moment)
- 2022 December 8, Juan Diego Quesada, Inés Santaeulalia, “Los 180 minutos que hicieron temblar Perú”, in El País:
- El pulso al orden constitucional duró un suspiro, lo que tardaron los militares en hacer un escueto comunicado en el que anunciaban que no respaldaban su aventura golpista.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- various small pastries of high sugar content
- meringue
- Synonym: merengue
- Nolana (type of flower)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “suspiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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