English
afflation
Afflation comes from Latin afflare ‘to blow or breathe on’, and goes back to flō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflare‘to blow or breathe on’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflatuspast participle of afflare
- Englishearliest quotation 1816afflation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflare‘to blow or breathe on’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflatuspast participle of afflare
- Englishearliest quotation 1816afflation
Earliest quotation: 1816, The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New 8th - Vo: “These Memoirs are introduced by a Preface written by…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, fluency, confluence, blithely, fluvial, blare, blasé, bleat, blather, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
flavor, inflation, inflate, flatulence, soufflé, conflate, 17 more
Today it means
noun A blowing or breathing on.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / afflation