inflatus
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]inflatus
- A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- The divine breath that blows the nostrils out
To ineffable inflatus.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of īnflō (“inflate, blow into”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈflaː.tus/, [ĩːˈfɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈfla.tus/, [iɱˈfläːt̪us]
Participle
[edit]īnflātus (feminine īnflāta, neuter īnflātum, adverb īnflātē); first/second-declension participle
- inflated, having been blown into
- (of a wind instrument) having been played
- puffed up, having become swollen
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | īnflātus | īnflāta | īnflātum | īnflātī | īnflātae | īnflāta | |
genitive | īnflātī | īnflātae | īnflātī | īnflātōrum | īnflātārum | īnflātōrum | |
dative | īnflātō | īnflātae | īnflātō | īnflātīs | |||
accusative | īnflātum | īnflātam | īnflātum | īnflātōs | īnflātās | īnflāta | |
ablative | īnflātō | īnflātā | īnflātō | īnflātīs | |||
vocative | īnflāte | īnflāta | īnflātum | īnflātī | īnflātae | īnflāta |
Descendants
[edit]- English: inflate
- Old Galician-Portuguese: inchado
- Portuguese: inchado, inflado
- Italian: enfiato, infiato
References
[edit]- “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[1], 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
- inspired: divino quodam spiritu inflatus or tactus
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