English
inflative
Inflative comes from Medieval Latin īnflō ‘to inflate’, and goes back to Latin flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500īnflō‘to inflate’
- Medieval Latin, derivedc. 600–1500īnflātīvus
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inflātīve‘causing swelling’
- Englishtodayinflative
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to blow’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500īnflō‘to inflate’
- Medieval Latin, derivedc. 600–1500īnflātīvus
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inflātīve‘causing swelling’
- Englishtodayinflative
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
adj Of an inflating quality or tendency.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / inflative