aliento
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /aˈljento/ [aˈljẽn̪.t̪o]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: a‧lien‧to
Etymology 1
[edit]Probably a deverbal from alentar. The diphthong /je/ complicates a direct inheritance from Latin anhēlitus.[1]
Noun
[edit]aliento m (plural alientos)
- breath
- ¿Cómo huele mi aliento? — A una selva profunda y primordial.
- How does my breath smell? — Like a deep, primordial jungle.
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]aliento
- first-person singular present indicative of alentar (“to encourage, to cheer up”)
References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “alentar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 142
Further reading
[edit]- “aliento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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