espirar
Portuguese, verb/is.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
espirar is spelled E-S-P-I-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese, the 203,084th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exhale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “respirar”.
What does espirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exhale
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. respirar 2. viver, estar vivo 3. fugir
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of espirar
- espiro first-person present singular
- espirei first-person preterite singular
- espirado participle past
- espirares infinitive second-person singular
- espirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- espirardes infinitive plural second-person
- espirarem infinitive plural third-person
- espirando gerund
- espirados masculine participle past
- espirada feminine participle past
- espiradas feminine participle past
- espiras indicative present second-person
- espira indicative present singular
- espiramos first-person indicative plural
- espirais indicative plural present
- espiram indicative plural present
- espirava first-person imperfect indicative
- espiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce espirar?
- Brazil /is.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.piˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /es.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is espirar in Portuguese?
espirar appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).