aspirant
/ˈæspəənt/A-spur-uhnt
/ˈæspɚənt/A-spur-uhnt
Meaningone who aspires
Common meaning: a person who hopes to achieve something
- ato, towards, at (Latin ad-, often through French a-)
- spirto breatheLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1743 · scan
- antadjective ending: being
‘to, towards, at (Latin ad-, often through French a-)’ + ‘to breathe’ → aspirant
Journey through time
- Latinspīrō, spīrāvī‘to breathe’
- Frenchaspirer
- Englishaspire‘to aim high’
- Englishformed in English from aspireaspirant‘a person who hopes to achieve something’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from aspire + -ant.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), ASPIRE, p.37 · scan
Roots
- spīrō, spīrāvī Latin “to breathe”
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