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Asturian
Verb
inflo
- first-person singular present indicative of inflar
Catalan
Verb
inflo
- first-person singular present indicative of inflar
Galician
Verb
inflo
- first-person singular present indicative of inflar
Latin
Etymology
From in- + flō (“I blow”).
Pronunciation
Verb
īnflō (present infinitive īnflāre, perfect active īnflāvī, supine īnflātum); first conjugation
- to inflate; to blow into
- to play a wind instrument
- (figuratively) to puff up, swell; to be proud, haughty
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References
- “inflo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inflo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inflo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to play the flute: tibias inflare
- (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
Portuguese
Verb
inflo
- first-person singular present indicative of inflar
Spanish
Verb
inflo
- first-person singular present indicative of inflar