efflate

English

Etymology

From Latin efflatus, past participle of efflare (“to blow or breathe out”), from ex + flare (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈfleɪt/

Verb

efflate (third-person singular simple present efflates, present participle efflating, simple past and past participle efflated)

1. To fill with breath; to puff up.
   • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:

     our common spirits, efflated by every vulgar breath

References

“efflate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

efflāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of efflō