inflatio

Latin

Etymology

From īnflō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈflaː.ti.oː/, [ĩːˈfɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈflat.t͡si.o/, [iɱˈflät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

īnflātiō f (genitive īnflātiōnis); third declension

1. inflation
2. flatulence
3. inflammation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnflātiō	īnflātiōnēs
Genitive	īnflātiōnis	īnflātiōnum
Dative	īnflātiōnī	īnflātiōnibus
Accusative	īnflātiōnem	īnflātiōnēs
Ablative	īnflātiōne	īnflātiōnibus
Vocative	īnflātiō	īnflātiōnēs

Descendants

• Inherited forms:
  • Italian: enfiagione
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: inchaçon
    • Galician: inchazón
    • Portuguese: inchação
  • Romanian: umflăciune
  • Spanish: hinchazón
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Catalan: inflació
  • → English: inflation
  • → Finnish: inflaatio
  • → French: inflation
  • → Friulian: inflazion
  • → Italian: inflazione
  • → Polish: inflacja
  • → Portuguese: inflação
  • → Romanian: inflație
  • → Russian: инфляция (infljacija)
  • → Spanish: inflación

References

• “inflatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inflatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inflatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.