Question for the intelligent...

[rainingdecember]

One of my college professors said that the Latin (or Greek...I can't remember...but I think Latin) word for "breathe" is "inspire." Well, I thought that can't be entirely true, but it's very interesting, so I tried to look it up as Latin, but I kept getting mixed things.

spirare
aspirare
spiraro

Are any of these correct? Does anyone happen to know?

Comments

[sam_mahool]

No idea.

[asoggybiscuit42]

respirar is spanish for breath

knowing that most spanish is derived from latin and taking the spirar and converting it into inspire kinda makes sense

for when you inspire, you breathe life into something

i can see that