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) [əs.piˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [as.piˈɾaɾ]

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

1. (intransitive) to aspire [with a ‘to’]
2. (transitive) to inhale

   Synonym: inhalar

3. (transitive) to aspirate

• aspirador
• aspiradora

• aspiració
• aspirant
• aspiratori

• “aspirar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• 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) [with a ‘something’ or a (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]
4. (phonetics, transitive) to aspirate (to produce a puff of breath with a consonant)

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

• IPA^(key): /aspiˈɾaɾ/ [as.piˈɾaɾ]
• 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], 10 December 2024