English
inflation
Inflation comes from Old French inflation ‘swelling’, from Latin īnflātiō ‘expansion", "blowing up’, and ultimately from flō ‘blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflō‘blow into, expand’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflātus‘inflated, having been blown into’perfect passive participle of īnflō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflātiō‘expansion", "blowing up’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400inflation‘swelling’
- Englishtodayinflation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflō‘blow into, expand’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflātus‘inflated, having been blown into’perfect passive participle of īnflō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnflātiō‘expansion", "blowing up’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400inflation‘swelling’
- Englishtodayinflation
Equivalent to inflate + -ion
Latin flō ‘to blow’
Latin īnflō ‘inflate, blow into’
Latin īnflātus ‘inflated, having been blown into’
English inflate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, fluency, confluence, blithely, fluvial, blare, blasé, bleat, blather, 46 more
through Latin flō ‘blow’
Today it means
noun An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / inflation