The story
- Latin · derived fromperspirare“to blow or breathe constantly”
- Middle French · borrowed fromperspiration
- English todayperspiration
Borrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”). Morphologically perspire + -ation.
Words from the same roots
Latinperspirare all →
perspirative
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.