Etymograph

English

soufflage

Soufflage comes from French soufflage ‘blowing’, from souffler ‘to blow’, and ultimately from Latin flō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to breathe, blow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuffloas sufflāre‘to blow, puff up, inflate’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400sofler
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentsouffler‘to blow’
  5. French, derivedc. 1600–presentsoufflage‘blowing’
  6. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō‘to breathe, blow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuffloas sufflāre‘to blow, puff up, inflate’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400sofler
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentsouffler‘to blow’
  5. French, derivedc. 1600–presentsoufflage‘blowing’
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-

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

through Latin flō ‘to breathe, blow’

inflation, flavor, inflate, flatulence, conflate, 18 more

Today it means

noun The surrealist technique of blowing liquid paint to inspire or reveal an image.

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

Etymograph / Latin flō / soufflage

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