conflate

English

WOTD – 5 May 2008    

Etymology

1541: from Latin cōnflātus, from cōnflō (“fuse, melt, or blow together”); cōn (“with, together”) + flō (“blow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kənˈfleɪt/, /kɒnˈfleɪt/, X-SAMPA: /k@n"fleIt/
• (US) IPA: /kənˈfleɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

conflate (third-person singular simple present conflates, present participle conflating, simple past and past participle conflated)

1. To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity.
2. To mix together different elements.

Synonyms

• (to bring together): fuse, meld
• (mix together): mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, merge

Translations

Fuse into a single entity

• Dutch: samenvoegen (nl),verbinden (nl)
• Estonian: kokku sulatama
• Finnish: yhdistää (fi)
• French: amalgamer (fr)
• German: verbinden (de), vereinigen (de), verschmelzen (de)
• Polish: połączyć (pl)

• Portuguese: unir (pt), juntar (pt)
• Russian: соединять (ru) (sojedinjatʹ), объединять (ru) (obʺjedinjatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: sjediniti (sh)
• Spanish: unir (es)
• Turkish: birleştirmek (tr)

Anagrams

• falconet

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Latin

Verb

conflāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of conflō