aspiração
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin aspīrātiōnem.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: as‧pi‧ra‧ção
Noun
editaspiração f (plural aspirações)
- aspiration (ardent desire or ambition)
- aspiration (the act of aspirating, inhaling)
- vacuuming (the act of cleaning something with a vacuum cleaner)
- (phonetics) aspiration (burst of air that accompanies the release of some consonants)