suspirar

From Old Galician and Old 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 (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

• suspiro

• “suspirar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “suspir” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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 Portuguese suspirar, sospirar, from Latin suspīrāre, present active infinitive of suspīrō.

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

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

1. to sigh

• suspiro

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

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

1. to sigh

• suspiro