aspirar

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre, present active infinitive of aspīrō.

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): (Valencian) [as.piˈɾaɾ]

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

1. (intransitive) to aspire [+ a (object) = to]
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, present active infinitive of aspīrō.

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, since 2012

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. (intransitive) to inspire (to draw air into the lungs)

   Synonyms: inalar, inspirar

3. (transitive or auxiliary with a and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) 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/ [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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014