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Dutch
Etymology
The medical sense is borrowed from Latin īnflātiō. The other senses are a semantic loan from English inflation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪnˈflaː.(t)si/
- Hyphenation: in‧fla‧tie
Noun
inflatie f (plural inflaties, diminutive inflatietje n)
- (obsolete, medicine) stomach bloat
- (economics) inflation, increase in the general price level
- (cosmology) cosmic inflation, the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang
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