# respire
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English respiren, borrowed from Old French respirer or Latin respīrō (“to blow back, breathe out”), from re- (“back”) +‎ spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈspʌɪə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ɹɪˈspaɪɹ/
* Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

### Verb

respire (third-person singular simple present respires, present participle respiring, simple past and past participle respired)
* (intransitive) To breathe in and out successively.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:breathe
** (intransitive) To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
*** 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 10–11:The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, / With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.
*** 1888, Edmund Shaftesbury, Lessons in Artistic Deep Breathing for Strengthening the Voice‎, page 23:Second Day.—Hold the breath five seconds. Respire, and hold the breath ten seconds. Respire, and hold the breath fifteen seconds.
* (cytology, intransitive) To take up oxygen and produce carbon dioxide through oxidation.
** 1964, H. Webb, M. A. Grigg, Modern Science‎, Book 3, page 155:All living things respire or breathe. To many of us this means that they take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.
* (transitive) To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe.
** 1799, M. Lesser, Insecto-Theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Perfections of God, from a Consideration of the Structure and Economy of Insects‎, page 327:It is my opinion, that these animals, while they continue in the state of larvae, respire water and not air; and that they inspire the water, not by the mask, but by their posterior part, through which also they discharge it.
** 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 139:They were the last moments he might ever respire near her, who was then doubtless wrapt in peaceful sleep, whilst he wandered distracted without.
* (archaic, intransitive) To recover hope, courage, or strength after a time of difficulty.

#### Derived terms

* photorespire
* respirable
* respiratory
* respiring
* respiro-

#### Related terms

* respiration
* respirability
* respirableness
* respirative

#### Translations
### Noun

respire
* (obsolete) Rest, respite.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 162:He cast to suffer him no more respire, But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld, And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.

### References

* “respire”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “respire”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* perries, reprise

## Asturian
### Verb

respire
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of respirar

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɛs.piʁ/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

respire m (plural respires)
* (North America) Alternative spelling of respir

#### Derived terms

* avoir le respire court et le discours égaré

### Verb

respire
* inflection of respirer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “respire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* pierres, prières, reprise, reprisé

## Galician
### Verb

respire
* inflection of respirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Portuguese
### Verb

respire
* inflection of respirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [reˈspire]

### Verb

respire
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of respira

## Spanish
### Verb

respire
* inflection of respirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative