English
inflate
Inflate comes from Latin īnflātus ‘inflated, having been blown into’, and goes back to flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflō‘inflate, blow into’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflātus‘inflated, having been blown into’
- Englishearliest quotation 1782inflate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflō‘inflate, blow into’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflātus‘inflated, having been blown into’
- Englishearliest quotation 1782inflate
Earliest quotation: 1782, John Scott of Amwell: “When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, fluency, confluence, blithely, fluvial, blare, blasé, bleat, blather, 46 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
Today it means
verb To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / inflate