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/, 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.

Synonyms

• (to bring together): fuse, meld

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), объединять (ru) Spanish: unir (es) Turkish: birleştirmek (tr)

Anagrams

• falconet

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Latin

Verb

conflāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of conflō