inflation

See also Inflation

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into", "expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

inflation (plural inflations)

1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.

   The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

2. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
3. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Antonyms

• deflation

Derived terms

• core inflation
• grade inflation
• hyperinflation
• inflationary
• stagflation
• superinflation
• taxonomic inflation

Related terms

• inflate
• conflation
• reflation

Translations

expansion or increase in size

• Dutch: opblazen (nl) n
• Esperanto: inflacio (eo)
• Finnish: laajentuminen (fi)
• French: inflation (fr) f
• German: Aufblasen (de) n, Aufblähung (de) f, Inflation (de) f
• Greek: φούσκωμα (el) (foúskoma) n (foúskoma)
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Indonesian: pengembangan (id), pengembungan (id), inflasi (id)
• Interlingua: inflation (ia)
• Japanese: 膨張 (ja) (ぼうちょう, bōchō), 膨らみ (ja) (ふくらみ, fukurami)

• Korean: 팽창 (ko) (paengchang)
• Norwegian: oppblåsing (no) c
• Pashto: پړسوب (ps) (parrsob) m, غومبه (ps) (γumba) f
• Romanian: inflație (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: inflácija (sh) f
• Spanish: inflación (es) f
• Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)
• Swedish: uppblåsning (sv) c
• Vietnamese: (sự) thổi phồng (vi)
• Volapük: bladosvolükön (vo)

increase in prices

• Arabic: تَضَخُّم (ar) (taDakhkhum) m
• Armenian: գնաճ (hy) (gnač), սղաճ (hy) (słač)
• Belarusian: інфляцыя (be) (infliacyja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通货膨胀 (cmn)

• Czech: inflace (cs) f
• Danish: inflation (da)
• Dutch: inflatie (nl)
• Esperanto: inflacio (eo)
• Estonian: inflatsioon (et)
• Faroese: virðisminkan (fo) f, inflasjón (fo) f
• Finnish: inflaatio (fi)
• French: inflation (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Inflation (de) f
• Greek: πληθωρισμός (el) (plithorismós) m (plithorismós)
• Hebrew: אינפלציה (he) (inflátsya)
• Hungarian: infláció (hu)
• Icelandic: verðbólga (is) f
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Indonesian: inflasi (id)
• Interlingua: inflation (ia)
• Italian: inflazione (it)

• Japanese: インフレ (ja) (infure), インフレーション (ja) (infurēshon)
• Khmer: អតិផរណា (km) (ak teh por ro nar)
• Korean: 인플레이션 (ko) (inpeulleisyeon)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: infliacija (lt)
• Norwegian: inflasjon (no)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: تورم (fa) (tavarrom)
• Polish: inflacja (pl)
• Portuguese: inflação (pt)
• Romanian: inflație (ro) f
• Russian: инфляция (ru) (infljácija) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инфлација (sh) f

  Roman: inflácija (sh) f

• Slovak: inflácia (sk) f
• Spanish: inflación (es) f
• Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)
• Swedish: inflation (sv)
• Turkish: enflasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфляція (uk) (infljacija) f
• Vietnamese: (sự) tăng giá (vi)
• Volapük: niflat (vo)

inflation of the universe

• Dutch: uitdijing (nl) f
• Ido: inflacio (io)

• Korean: 팽창 (ko) (paengchang)
• Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)

References

• (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.

Anagrams

• inflatino

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
• Homophone: inflations

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inflatio, inflationem.

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. inflation.

Antonyms

• déflation