Inspiratorischer

Inspiratorischer is a German adjective form related to inspiratorisch, describing something connected with inspiration in two senses: the physiological act of inhalation and the broader idea of inspiration or motivation. In medical and scientific contexts, it is used to denote aspects of breathing in, such as inspiratorischer Atemzug (an inspiratory breath) or inspiratorische Muskeln (inspiratory muscles). In everyday language, it can also be used metaphorically to mean something that inspires or motivates, though in practice the medical sense is more common in technical texts.

The word is an attributive, inflected form of inspiratorisch. It follows standard German adjective declension: masculine nominative singular is inspiratorischer, feminine nominative singular is inspiratorische, neuter nominative singular is inspiratorisches, and plural is inspiratorische. For definite articles you would see der inspiratorische Atemzug, die inspiratorische Bewegung; with indefinite or no article you would encounter ein inspiratorischer Atemzug or inspiratorische Bewegungen. The form inspiratorischer therefore primarily appears before masculine nouns in singular.

Etymology traces the term to the Latin inspirare, meaning to breathe in or to inspire, with the German suffixes -ator- and -isch forming an adjective meaning related to or pertaining to inspiration. In German, inspiratorisch is the base adjective, and inspiratorischer is one of its inflected variants used in grammar. The term is distinct from the English “inspirational,” which in German would more commonly be translated as inspirierend rather than inspiratorisch, though figurative overlap exists in non-technical prose.