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- +‎ spīrātiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪn.tɛr.spiːˈraː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in.ter.spiˈrat.t͡si.o] === Noun === interspīrātiō f (genitive interspīrātiōnis); third declension a pause for breath, a catching of breath ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === 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