conflate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested since 1541[1]: borrowed from Latin cōnflātus, from cōnflō (“fuse, melt, or blow together”); cōn (“with, together”) + flō (“blow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
conflate (third-person singular simple present conflates, present participle conflating, simple past and past participle conflated)
- To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
- To mix together different elements.
- (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
- Synonyms: confuse, mix up, lump together
- “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to fuse into a single entity
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to mix together different elements
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to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent
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Adjective[edit]
conflate (not comparable)
- (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
- 1999, Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint:
- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.
Noun[edit]
conflate (plural conflates)
- (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “conflate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
cōnflāte
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