English
flabile
Flabile comes from Latin flabilis ‘airy’, and goes back to flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabilis‘airy’
- Englishearliest quotation 1728flabile
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflabilis‘airy’
- Englishearliest quotation 1728flabile
Earliest quotation: 1728, Roger North, Hilda Andrews: “In the then earlyer times , the comon country…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, confluence, fluency, blithely, fluvial, blare, blather, blasé, bleat, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
inflation, flavor, inflate, flatulence, soufflé, conflate, 17 more
Today it means
adj Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / flabile