aspiração

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin aspīrātiōnem. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: as‧pi‧ra‧ção === Noun === aspiração f (plural aspirações) aspiration (ardent desire or ambition) aspiration (the act of aspirating, inhaling) vacuuming (the act of cleaning something with a vacuum cleaner) (phonetics) aspiration (burst of air that accompanies the release of some consonants) ==== Related terms ==== aspirar === Further reading === “aspiração”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “aspiração”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026