insufflare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnsufflāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.sufˈfla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧suf‧flà‧re

Verb

insufflàre (first-person singular present insùfflo, first-person singular past historic insufflài, past participle insufflàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, Christianity) to blow (the breath)
  2. (intransitive) to blow
  3. (transitive, medicine) to insufflate (oxygen, etc.)
  4. (transitive, figurative, rare) to inspire, to arouse (vigor, hate, doubt, suspicion, etc.)

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Latin

Verb

īnsufflāre

  1. inflection of īnsufflō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Verb

īnsufflāre

  1. inflection of īnsufflō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative