spiraculum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin spīrāculum. === Noun === spiraculum (plural spiracula) A spiracle. == Latin == === Etymology === From spirō (“breathe, respire; live”) + -culum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [spiːˈraː.kʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [spiˈraː.ku.lum] === Noun === spīrāculum n (genitive spīrāculī); second declension air hole, vent, spiracle; breath ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== (air hole, vent): spīrāmen (breath): spīrātiō, spīrātus epistomium ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Italian: spiraglio → Catalan: espiracle → English: spiracle, spiraculum → Italian: spiracolo → Portuguese: espiráculo → Spanish: espiráculo === References === “spiraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “spiraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "spiraculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “spiraculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.