See respire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"2": "re-",
"3": "spīrō",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "back",
"t2": "to breathe, blow"
},
"expansion": "re- (“back”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English respiren, borrowed from Old French respirer or Latin respīrō (“to blow back, breathe out”), from re- (“back”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "respire",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Rest"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 162:",
"text": "He cast to suffer him no more respire,\nBut gan his sturdie sterne about to weld,\nAnd him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Rest, respite."
],
"links": [
[
"Rest",
"rest"
],
[
"respite",
"respite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Rest, respite."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɹɪˈspʌɪə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ɹɪˈspaɪɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪə(ɹ)"
}
],
"word": "respire"
}
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