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respiratio

respiratio · f

a breathing out

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rēspīrātĭo — Lewis & Short

rēspīrātĭo, ōnis, f.respiro.

I Lit., a breathing out, exhaling; hence, in gen., breathing, respiration, Cic. Univ. 6; Plin. 9, 7, 6, § 18; Quint. 9, 4, 67 (with spiritus); 11, 3, 39; 53; 63; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 3, 16; 2, 32, 167.—*

B Transf., exhalation: aquarum, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27.—

II Trop., a breathing in the course of an action, i. e. a taking breath, resting; an intermission, pause: in suo quisque gradu obnixi sine respiratione ac respectu pugnabant, Liv. 8, 38.—So of a pause in speaking: morae respirationesque delectant, Cic. Or. 16, 53; cf. Quint. 7, 9, 11; 11, 3, 49.

In the wild

respiratione Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.38.11
respiratio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.49
respirationesque Cicero, Orator 53.p1
respiratione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.39
respiratione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.7
respiratione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.9.11

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