English
efflate
Efflate comes from Latin efflatus ‘breathed out’, and goes back to flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflare‘to blow or breathe out’next step skipped: Latin efflō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflatus‘breathed out’past participle of efflare
- Englishearliest quotation 1634efflate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflare‘to blow or breathe out’next step skipped: Latin efflō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflatus‘breathed out’past participle of efflare
- Englishearliest quotation 1634efflate
Earliest quotation: 1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile: “our common spirits, efflated by every vulgar breath”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, confluence, fluency, blithely, fluvial, blare, blasé, bleat, blather, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
inflation, flavor, inflate, flatulence, soufflé, conflate, 17 more
Today it means
verb To fill with breath; to puff up.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / efflate