suspirar

From Old Galician-Portuguese sospirar, from Latin suspīrāre.

• 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “suspirar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “suspir”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “suspirar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “suspirar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “suspirar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “suspirar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “suspirar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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}}.

• suspiro

• respirar
• inspirar
• expirar
• aspirar

• “suspirar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “suspirar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “suspirar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “suspirar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “suspirar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “suspirar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /suspiˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sus‧pi‧rar

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

1. (intransitive) to sigh

• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “espirar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 748

• “suspirar”, 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