respiro

respiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of respirar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rəsˈpi.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rəsˈpi.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [resˈpi.ɾo]

respiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of respirar

respiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of respirar

• IPA^(key): /resˈpi.ro/
• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: re‧spì‧ro

Deverbal from respirare +‎ -o.

respiro m (plural respiri)

1. breath

   Synonym: fiato

• respirazione

respiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of respirare

• respiro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• riperso, riporse, ripreso, spirerò, sporrei

From re- (“back; again”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛsˈpiː.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [resˈpiː.ro]

respīrō (present infinitive respīrāre, perfect active respīrāvī, supine respīrātum); first conjugation

1. (literal, transitive) to blow or breathe back; to breathe out, exhale
2. (transferred sense, intransitive)
   1. (literal) to take breath; to breathe, respire
   2. (figuratively) to fetch one's breath again, recover breath; to recover, revive, be relieved or refreshed after anything difficult
      1. (transferred sense) to abate, diminish, cease

• “respiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “respiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “respiro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to recover from one's fright: a metu respirare (Cluent. 70. 200)
    

respiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of respirar

Borrowed from Italian respiro.

respiro n (uncountable)

1. respite

• respiro in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /resˈpiɾo/ [resˈpi.ɾo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: res‧pi‧ro

Deverbal from respirar.

respiro m (plural respiros)

1. breath
2. break, respite, breather, relief, reprieve, rest

   ¡Dame un respiro! ― Give me a break!

   Dale un respiro. ― Give it a rest.

3. breathing room, breathing space, slack

   Dale un respiro. Ella está realmente tratando de cambiar.

   Cut her some slack. She's really trying to change.

respiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of respirar

• “respiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025