Respiradas

Respiradas is a Portuguese noun that historically refers to breaths or inhalations. It is the plural form of a word that appears in older or regional texts, and today it is far less common in standard, contemporary Portuguese, where respirações or inalações are preferred for the plural and for the act of breathing.

In usage, respiradas is most often found in literary, descriptive, or antiquarian contexts. It may be employed to evoke rhythm, tempo, or the physical act of breathing as discrete events within a narrative or poem. In modern medical and scientific writing, however, specialists typically use terms such as respiração (breathing), ritmo respiratório (respiratory rate), volumes, or inalação and exalação to describe breathing processes.

Etymologically, respiradas derives from respirar, via the nominalizing processes in Portuguese that yield a noun meaning a breath or a breathed quantity, and can also appear as the feminine plural adjective form of respirado in some older texts. Its presence in a modern lexicon is thus mainly historical or regional rather than a standard feature of current Portuguese.

See also: respiration, breathing, respiratory rate, inhalation.