inflatus

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English

Etymology

Latin . See inflate.

Noun

inflatus

  1. A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inflatus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īnflō (inflate, blow into).

Pronunciation

Participle

īnflātus (feminine īnflāta, neuter īnflātum, adverb īnflātē); first/second-declension participle

  1. inflated, having been blown into
  2. (of a wind instrument) having been played
  3. puffed up, having become swollen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

References

  • inflatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inflatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inflatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • inspired: divino quodam spiritu inflatus or tactus
    • (ambiguous) a bombastic style: inflatum orationis genus
    • (ambiguous) to be proud, arrogant by reason of something: inflatum, elatum esse aliqua re
    • (ambiguous) to be puffed up with pride: insolentia, superbia inflatum esse