English
sufflate
Sufflate comes from Latin sufflare, and goes back to flō ‘to blow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsufflare
- Englishtodaysufflate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōas flare‘to blow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsufflare
- Englishtodaysufflate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, confluence, fluency, blithely, fluvial, blare, blasé, bleat, blather, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
inflation, flavor, inflate, flatulence, conflate, soufflé, 17 more
Today it means
verb To inflate; to blow up.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flō / sufflate