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Latin
Etymology
From suspīrō (“I sigh”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
suspīrium n (genitive suspīriī or suspīrī); second declension
- a deep breath
- a gasp, a pant
587 CE,
Gregory of Tours,
Liber in gloria martyrum, 70 :
- Nec mora, corripitur pervasor a febre, decumbit lectulo, exhorret cibum, fastidit et potum, profert aestuans iuge suspirium.
- Immediately the man who had invaded was struck with a fever. He lay on his bed, refused food and drink, and in his fever, writhing, unceasingly brought forth a spasmodic pant.
- a sigh
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “suspirium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suspirium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suspirium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- suspirium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.