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asfixia
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Catalan
Verb
asfixia
- inflection of asfixiar:
Portuguese
Verb
asfixia
- inflection of asfixiar:
Romanian
Etymology
Verb
a asfixia (third-person singular present asfixiează, past participle asfixiat) 1st conjugation
- to asphyxiate
Conjugation
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from New Latin asphyxia, from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + σφύξις (sphúxis, “pulse”).
Noun
asfixia f (plural asfixias)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
asfixia
- inflection of asfixiar:
Further reading
- “asfixia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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