breathsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of breath or breathing; breathy.
Example Sentences
- "I feel it now, the breathsome gale / That swayed and kissed the almond flowers / Which flushed that sunny nook of ground, / By cedars flanked, with mountains round."
- "To feel sweet gales around thee blow, / Yet know that there be some who ne'er / Shall feel again that breathsome air, / Joyful or sad; [...]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English breath Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English breathsome From breath + -some.
Inflected Forms
more breathsome (comparative)
most breathsome (superlative)