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noun, feminine

transpiration

/tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

noun, feminine/tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/plural: transpirations

transpiration (process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes); sweat (fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation)

Synonyms: sueur

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin trānspirātiō. By surface analysis, transpirer + -ation.

transpiration — French Dictionary | Passage