English
efflation
Efflation comes from Latin efflātiō ‘exhalation’, and goes back to flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflō‘to exhale’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflātiō‘exhalation’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1718efflation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflō‘to exhale’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEefflātiō‘exhalation’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1718efflation
Earliest quotation: a. 1718, Thomas Parnell: “a soft efflation of celestial fire”.
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, breathing or puffing out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / efflation