English → Latin
“exhale” in Latin
exhālōto breathe out, exhaleexspīrōto exhale (breathe out); to expire; to dieēmittōto send forth, emit, discharge; to hurl, cast; to let forth, let go, send outspīrōto breathe, draw breath, respire; to blow, breathe, burst forth; to breathe out, exhale, emithālōto breathe; to emit, exhale, release (gas or fragrance); to be fragrantvapōrōto steam, reek; to smoke, fumigatecrāpulaexcessive drinking, drunkenness, inebriation, intoxication; surfeit of food, overeatingvaporsteam, exhalation, vapour; smoke; warm exhalation, warmth, heat; ardour of love, warmthodorA smell, perfume, stench.; Inkling, suggestion.
The English word exhale itself goes back to Latin ex, through exhalo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
exhale
Send forth vapour, exhalare (in Cic. only with vinum, crapulam): exspirare (not Cic., or Caes.): emittere (to send forth; e.g., vaporem): spirare (to breathe forth, odorem, Verg. poetical and post-Augustan prose; not Ciceronian): halare (e.g., nectar floribus, of flowers, Lucr., †). To exhale an odor, odorem praestare, emittere (☞ odorem spargere, spirare, diffundere, all poetical). The flowers exhale a sweet odor, odores e floribus afflantur.
Draw forth vapor, vaporem ex aliqua re excitare (e.g., ex agris, aquis, etc., of the sun, Cic.): vaporare (to fill with warm vapor, laevum latus sol decedens vaporat).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for exhale?
- The usual Latin words for “exhale” are exhālō, exspīrō, ēmittō; also spīrō, hālō, vapōrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.