suspirar

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

• IPA^(key): /suspiˈɾaɾ/

suspirar (first-person singular present suspiro, first-person singular preterite suspirei, past participle suspirado)

1. (archaic) to inhale, to breathe
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, 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

• suspiro

• “suspirar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “suspir” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “suspirar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “suspirar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “suspirar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

suspirar

1. to sigh

From Old Galician-Portuguese suspirar, sospirar, from Latin suspīrāre.

• Hyphenation: sus‧pi‧rar

suspirar (first-person singular present suspiro, first-person singular preterite suspirei, past participle suspirado)

1. (intransitive) to sigh
2. (transitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
3. inflection of suspirar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• suspiro

• “suspirar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “suspirar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “suspirar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “suspirar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “suspirar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “suspirar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Old Spanish sospirar, from Latin suspirāre. Cognate with English suspire.

suspirar (first-person singular present suspiro, first-person singular preterite suspiré, past participle suspirado)

1. to sigh

• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “espirar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 748

• “suspirar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014