suspirium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From suspīrō (“I sigh”) + -ium.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /susˈpiː.ri.um/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈpiːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /susˈpi.ri.um/, [susˈpiːrium]
Noun edit
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 [the church property] 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.
- Nec mora, corripitur pervasor a febre, decumbit lectulo, exhorret cibum, fastidit et potum, profert aestuans iuge suspirium.
- a sigh
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | suspīrium | suspīria |
| Genitive | suspīriī suspīrī1 |
suspīriōrum |
| Dative | suspīriō | suspīriīs |
| Accusative | suspīrium | suspīria |
| Ablative | suspīriō | suspīriīs |
| Vocative | suspīrium | suspīria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: suschir
- Catalan: sospir
- French: soupir
- Friulian: suspîr
- Italian: sospiro
- Occitan: sospir
- Portuguese: suspiro
- Romanian: suspin
- Romansch: suspir, suspeir
- Spanish: suspiro
- Venetian: sospiro
Further reading edit
- “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.