respirés

Respirés is the masculine plural past participle of the French verb respirer. It also functions as an adjective meaning “breathed” or “inhaled” and agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number (masculine plural: respirés; feminine plural: respirées; masculine singular: respiré; feminine singular: respirée). In compound tenses with the auxiliary avoir, the participle may agree with a preceding direct object: for example, les parfums qu’il a respirés (the perfumes he inhaled). By contrast, when there is no preceding object, the participle remains in its basic form: il a respiré profondément.

Etymology: respirés derives from the verb respirer, which in turn comes from Latin respirare, formed from re- “again” and spirare “to breathe,” and is related to the terms respiration and respiratoire.

Usage: respirés appears primarily in contexts relating to breathing or inhalation, including medical, physiological, and sensory descriptions of breath or inhaled scents. The form is more common as part of verb phrases or as an adjective describing something that has been breathed in; it is less frequently used as a standalone noun, where the standard noun is respiration.

Examples: Les parfums qu’il a respirés. Une atmosphère respirée par les participants.

See also: respiration, respiratoire, inhalation.