Spirâmen, pen. prod. spiraminis, n. g. Lucan, That whereby aire, breath, or winde issueth.Reficit spiramina fessi ignis.Stat.He refresheth & bloweth the sire that was almost out.Spiramentum. spiramenti, n. g. Virgil. That whereby breath, aire, or smoke issueth.Spiramenta animæ læthali vuloere rupit. Vir. He gaue him a deadly wound about the winde pipe.Relaxatis spiramentis infusus aer Plin.Cæca spiramenta.Virg.Secrete holes or tssues.Spiramentum Plin.The tunnell of a chimney, or like thing.Exhalantia flammam spiramenta.Ouid.Spiramentum cauernæ. Iustinus. Non per interualla ac spiramenta temporum, sed cõtinuò & velut vno ictu Rempub. exhausit. Tacir.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
spīrāmen, ĭnis, n. [spiro]. I.A breathing - hole, passage for the breath, air-hole, thrill, vent (poet. and very rare): spiramina Naris, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 691 P. (Ann. v. 265 Vahl.); Luc. 2, 183: sunt qui spiramina terris Esse putant, id. 10, 247; cf.: spiramina laxanda, Plin. 32, 10, 42, 123.—II. Abstr., a breathing, blowing (poet. and in post-class. prose), Luc. 6, 90: ventorum spiramina, Amm. 17, 7, 11: reficit spiramina fessi ignis, Stat. Th. 12, 268: lacessitus longo spiraminis actu, Claud. Magn. 36: interclusis spiraminibus interire, Arn. 2, 133.— Of the Holy Ghost, Rust. Help. Carm. 77.