Etymograph

English

flatulence

Flatulence comes from French flatulence, and goes back to Latin flō ‘breathe, blow’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘breathe, blow’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentflatulence
  3. Englishtodayflatulence

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘breathe, blow’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentflatulence
  3. Englishtodayflatulence

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’

blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, confluence, fluency, blithely, fluvial, blare, blasé, blather, bleat, 45 more

through Latin flō ‘breathe, blow’

inflation, flavor, inflate, soufflé, conflate, 18 more

Today it means

noun The state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin flō / flatulence

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