noun, masculine/aˈljento/plural: alientos
breath
“¿Cómo huele mi aliento? — A una selva profunda y primordial.” — How does my breath smell? — Like a deep, primordial jungle.
Related: de un aliento
Probably a deverbal from alentar. The diphthong /je/ complicates a direct inheritance from Latin anhēlitus.