# respiro
## Asturian
### Verb

respiro
* first-person singular present indicative of respirar

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [rəsˈpi.ɾu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [rəsˈpi.ɾo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [resˈpi.ɾo]

### Verb

respiro
* first-person singular present indicative of respirar

## Galician
### Verb

respiro
* first-person singular present indicative of respirar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reˈspi.ro/
* Rhymes: -iro
* Hyphenation: re‧spì‧ro

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from respirare +‎ -o.

#### Noun

respiro m (plural respiri)
* breath
    Synonym: fiato

##### Related terms

* respirazione

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

respiro
* first-person singular present indicative of respirare

### Further reading

* respiro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* riperso, riporse, ripreso, spirerò, sporrei

## Latin
### Etymology

From re- (“back; again”) +‎ spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /resˈpiː.roː/, [rɛs̠ˈpiːroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /resˈpi.ro/, [resˈpiːro]

### Verb

respīrō (present infinitive respīrāre, perfect active respīrāvī, supine respīrātum); first conjugation
* (literal, transitive) to blow or breathe back; to breathe out, exhale
* (transferred sense, intransitive)
** (literal) to take breath; to breathe, respire
** (figuratively) to fetch one's breath again, recover breath; to recover, revive, be relieved or refreshed after anything difficult
*** (transferred sense) to abate, diminish, cease
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#### Derived terms

* respīrāculum
* respīrāmen
* respīrāmentum
* respīrātiō
* respīrātus

#### Related terms

* aspīrō
* cōnspīrō
* exspīrō
* īnspīrō
* interspīrō
* perspīrō
* prōspīrō
* spīrō
* suspīrō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: respirar
* Italian: respirare
* Old French: respirer
** → Middle English: respiren
*** English: respire
** Middle French: respirer
*** French: respirer
** Norman: respither (Jersey)
** → Walloon: respirer
* Old Occitan: respirar
** Catalan: respirar
** Occitan: respirar
* Old Galician-Portuguese: respirar
** Galician: respirar
** Portuguese: respirar
* Old Spanish: respirar
** Spanish: respirar
* Piedmontese: respiré
* Romanian: respira
* Romansch: respirar, respirer (Puter)

### References

* “respiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “respiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* respiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to recover from one's fright: a metu respirare (Cluent. 70. 200)

## Portuguese
### Verb

respiro
* first-person singular present indicative of respirar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian respiro.

### Noun

respiro n (uncountable)
* respite

#### Declension
### References

* respiro in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /resˈpiɾo/ [resˈpi.ɾo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -iɾo
* Syllabification: res‧pi‧ro

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from respirar.

#### Noun

respiro m (plural respiros)
* breath
* break, respite, breather, relief, reprieve, rest
    ¡Dame un respiro! ― Give me a break!
    Dale un respiro. ― Give it a rest.
* breathing room, breathing space, slack
    Dale un respiro. Ella está realmente tratando de cambiar.Cut her some slack. She's really trying to change.

##### Related terms

* respiración
* respirar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

respiro
* first-person singular present indicative of respirar

### Further reading

* “respiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10