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Respire

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to breathe
1
Stage 1 of 2
respirare
Latin · ancient
"to breathe again"
to breathe again, from re- (again) and spirare (to breathe)
2
Stage 2 of 2
respire
English · 1400s
"to breathe"
settled as the English word for breathing
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