spīrāmentum (noun N) : id. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* A breathing-hole, airhole, vent, pore, spiracle.
* Lit.: caeca relaxat Spiramenta,Verg. G. 1, 90: (apes) in tectis certatim tenuia cera Spiramenta linunt,id. ib. 4, 39: cavernarum (Aetnae), Just. 4, 1, 6; cf. Ov. M. 15, 343 (for which, shortly after: spirandi viae): talparum,Pall. 1, 35, 10: animae,i. e. the lungs,Verg. A. 9, 580: dato per cavernas radicibus spiramento,Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 16.
* A breathing, blowing, exhaling, Vitr. 7, 12; Macr. S. praef. 1 med.: venti,a draught,Vitr. 4, 7.