Word.ws English Dictionary

rough breathing

rough breathing noun: aspiration on a vowel or semivowel in Ancient Greek.

Noun

rough breathing (plural rough breathings)

  1. Aspiration on a vowel or semivowel in Ancient Greek.
  2. A diacritic (῾ (h)/◌̔) in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek used to indicate this aspiration (or its historical presence), e.g. ἁ, ῥ.

Synonyms of rough breathing

Forms of rough breathing

pluralrough breathings

Origin of rough breathing

Calque of Latin spīritus asper, from Ancient Greek δασὺ πνεῦμα (dasù pneûma).

Questions about rough breathing

What does rough breathing mean?
Rough breathing means aspiration on a vowel or semivowel in Ancient Greek.
What part of speech is rough breathing?
Rough breathing is a noun.
What is the plural of rough breathing?
The plural of rough breathing is rough breathings.

Words near rough breathing in the dictionary

  1. rough bent
  2. rough bentgrass
  3. rough bluegrass
  4. rough book
  5. rough books
  6. rough breathing
  7. rough breathings
  8. rough collie
  9. rough collies
  10. Rough Common
  11. rough cut

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rough breathing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rough breathing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rough_breathing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.