infusion

See also: infusión and Infusion

English

Etymology

From Middle English infusioun, from Old French infusion, from Latin infusio, infusionem (“a pouring into, a wetting, a dyeing, a flow”), from infundo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfjuːʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

infusion (countable and uncountable, plural infusions)

2. A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.

   An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion.

4. The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
5. The act of installing a quality into a person.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

6. (obsolete) The act of dipping into a fluid.
8. (medicine) The administration of liquid substances directly into a vein for medical purposes; perfusion.

Derived terms

• amnioinfusion
• autoinfusion
• chemoinfusion
• chronoinfusion
• coinfusion
• infusional
• infusionism
• infusionist
• microinfusion
• overinfusion
• postinfusion
• preinfusion
• radioinfusion
• reinfusion
• superinfusion

 

Related terms

• infuse

Translations

a product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities

• Armenian: թուրմ (hy) (tʻurm)
• Bashkir: (alcohol-based) төнәтмә (tönətmə)
• Bulgarian: настойка f (nastojka)
• Catalan: infusió (ca) f
• Dutch: infusie (nl) f
• Finnish: uute (fi)
• French: infusion (fr) f
• Galician: infusión (gl) f
• German: Aufguss (de) m
• Latin: decoctum (la) n
• Maori: waiuru
• Polish: napar (pl) m
• Portuguese: infusão (pt) f
• Romanian: infuzie (ro) f
• Russian: насто́й (ru) m (nastój), зава́рка (ru) f (zavárka)
• Slovene: poparek m
• Spanish: infusión (es) f
• Tocharian B: kaṣāy
• Welsh: trwyth m

act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities

• Bashkir: төнәтеү (tönətew)
• Bulgarian: запарване n (zaparvane)
• Catalan: infusió (ca) f
• Finnish: uuttaminen (fi)
• Manx: yn-sheeley m
• Polish: zaparzanie (pl) n
• Romanian: infuzare (ro) f
• Russian: зава́ривание (ru) n (zavárivanije)

act of installing a quality into a person

• Bulgarian: вдъхване (bg) n (vdǎhvane)
• Spanish: infusión (es) f

act of dipping into a fluid

• Bashkir: маныу (manıw)
• Bulgarian: накисване n (nakisvane)
• Finnish: kastaminen (fi)

medicine: the administration of liquid substances directly into a vein

• Finnish: nesteensiirto, infuusio (fi)
• Indonesian: infus (id)
• Turkish: infüzyon

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin īnfūsiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fy.zjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

infusion f (plural infusions)

1. infusion (liquid product which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities)

   Synonyms: décoction, tisane

Further reading

• “infusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.