interspiratio

Latin

Etymology

Notionally from interspīrō +‎ -tiō, but interspīrō is never attested in the sense "to catch one's breath". More appropriately analysed as inter- +‎ spirātiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.ter.spiːˈraː.ti.oː/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrs̠piːˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.ter.spiˈrat.t͡si.o/, [in̪t̪erspiˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

interspīrātiō f (genitive interspīrātiōnis); third declension

1. a pause for breath, a catching of breath

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	interspīrātiō	interspīrātiōnēs
genitive	interspīrātiōnis	interspīrātiōnum
dative	interspīrātiōnī	interspīrātiōnibus
accusative	interspīrātiōnem	interspīrātiōnēs
ablative	interspīrātiōne	interspīrātiōnibus
vocative	interspīrātiō	interspīrātiōnēs

References

• “interspiratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interspiratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers