aspirar

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

aspirar (first-person singular indicative present aspiro, past participle aspiráu)

1. (intransitive) to inhale (to draw air into the lungs)
2. to hoover, vacuum-clean

• (inhale): inspirar

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

aspirar (first-person singular present aspiro, first-person singular preterite aspirí, past participle aspirat)

1. (intransitive) to aspire
2. (transitive) to inhale

   Synonym: inhalar

3. (transitive) to aspirate

• aspirador
• aspiradora

• aspiració
• aspirant
• aspiratori

• “aspirar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrāre.

aspirar (first-person singular present aspiro, first-person singular preterite aspirei, past participle aspirado)

1. to inhale
2. to aspirate

• aspiración

• “aspirar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from English aspirate, French aspirer, German aspirieren, Italian aspirare, Russian аспири́ровать (aspirírovatʹ), Spanish aspirar.

• IPA^(key): /aspiˈrar/

aspirar (present aspiras, past aspiris, future aspiros, conditional aspirus, imperative aspirez)

1. (transitive) to inhale, draw in (air, smoke, etc.)

   Antonym: expirar

2. (transitive) to suck in or up (liquids)
3. (transitive, grammar) to aspirate (a sound)
4. (transitive) to aspire: desire eagerly, long for, aim at

    Conjugation of aspirar

		present		past		future
infinitive		aspirar		aspirir		aspiror
tense		aspiras		aspiris		aspiros
conditional		aspirus
imperative		aspirez
adjective active participle		aspiranta		aspirinta		aspironta
adverbial active participle		aspirante		aspirinte		aspironte
nominal active participle	singular	aspiranto		aspirinto		aspironto
	plural	aspiranti		aspirinti		aspironti
adjective passive participle		aspirata		aspirita		aspirota
adverbial passive participle		aspirate		aspirite		aspirote
nominal passive participle	singular	aspirato		aspirito		aspiroto
	plural	aspirati		aspiriti		aspiroti

• sugar
• respirar
• ambiciar

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 33, 71, 702
• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 156

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

• Hyphenation: as‧pi‧rar

aspirar (first-person singular present aspiro, first-person singular preterite aspirei, past participle aspirado)

1. (transitive) to vacuum (to clean with a vacuum cleaner)
2. (transitive or intransitive) to inhale, to breathe in (to draw air into the lungs)

   Synonyms: inalar, inspirar

3. (intransitive or catenative) to aspire (to dream of becoming something)
4. (phonetics, transitive) to aspirate (to produce a puff of breath with a consonant)

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

• IPA^(key): /aspiˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: as‧pi‧rar

aspirar (first-person singular present aspiro, first-person singular preterite aspiré, past participle aspirado)

1. (transitive) to inhale
2. to aspire, to desire to be
3. to vacuum

• “aspirar”, 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