expirans

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of expīrō

Participle

expīrāns (genitive expīrantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. exhaling
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.44–45:

     “illum expīrantem trānsfīxō pectore flammās
     turbine corripuit scopulōque īnfīxit acūtō.”

     “That one exhaling flames from [his] pierced chest [after] she grabbed [him] up in a whirlwind and impaled [him] on a pointed rock.”
     (What is described in line 44 occurs after line 45, an example of hysteron proteron; i.e., Ajax the Lesser dies after Athena strikes him down. Here, “expirantem” may be understood as “exhaling” fire as well as “expiring” with a dying breath.)

2. expiring, dying

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	expīrāns			expīrantēs	expīrantia
genitive	expīrantis			expīrantium
dative	expīrantī			expīrantibus
accusative	expīrantem	expīrāns		expīrantēs expīrantīs	expīrantia
ablative	expīrante expīrantī1			expīrantibus
vocative	expīrāns			expīrantēs	expīrantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.