English
exhale
Exhale comes from Latin exhalare.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexhalare
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600exhaler
- Englishearliest quotation 1715exhale
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexhalare
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600exhaler
- Englishearliest quotation 1715exhale
Earliest quotation: 1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision: “Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + halare ‘to breathe’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- ‘to breathe’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-slo- ‘a breathing’
Proto-Italic *anaslos
Latin halō ‘to breathe’
Every English word from Latin exhalare
Today it means
verb To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exhalare / exhale