inflation

See also: Inflation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
• 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

Derived terms

• core inflation
• grade inflation
• hyperinflation
• inflationary

• stagflation
• superinflation
• taxonomic inflation

Related terms

• inflate
• conflation
• reflation

Translations

expansion or increase in size

• Belarusian: надзіма́нне n (nadzimánnje), надыма́нне n (nadymánnje)
• Bulgarian: надуване (bg) n (naduvane)
• Catalan: inflament f
• Dutch: opblazen (nl) n
• Esperanto: inflacio
• Finnish: laajentuminen (fi)
• French: inflation (fr) f
• German: Aufblasen n, Aufblähung f, Inflation (de) f
• Greek: φούσκωμα (el) n (foúskoma) (foúskoma)
• Hungarian: felfújás (hu), felfúvódás
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Indonesian: pengembangan (id), pengembungan (id), inflasi (id)
• Interlingua: inflation
• Japanese: 膨張 (ja) (ぼうちょう, bōchō), 膨らみ (ふくらみ, fukurami)
• Korean:팽창 (ko) (paengchang) (膨脹 (ko))
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• Maori: whakamakohatanga
• Norwegian: oppblåsing c
• Pashto: پړسوب (ps) m (parrsob), غومبه f (γumba)
• Portuguese: inflamento m
• Romanian: inflație (ro) f
• Russian: надува́ние (ru) n (naduvánije), вздува́ние (ru) n (vzduvánije), вспу́чивание (ru) n (vspúčivanije), раздува́ние (ru) n (razduvánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: inflácija (sh) f
• Spanish: inflación (es) f
• Swahili: mfumuko
• Swedish: uppblåsning c
• Ukrainian: надува́ння n (naduvánnja)
• Vietnamese: (sự) thổi phồng
• Volapük: bladosvolükön (vo)

increase in prices

• Arabic: تَضَخُّم m (taḍaḵḵum)
• Armenian: գնաճ (hy) (gnač), սղաճ (sġač)
• Belarusian: інфля́цыя f (infljácyja)
• Bulgarian: инфла́ция f (inflácija)
• Catalan: inflació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通貨膨脹／通货膨胀 (zh) (tōnghuò péngzhàng), 通货膨胀 (zh) (tōnghuòpéngzhàng)

• Czech: inflace (cs) f
• Danish: inflation (da)
• Dinka: thiɔrëɣɔ̈c
• Dutch: inflatie (nl)
• Esperanto: inflacio
• Estonian: inflatsioon
• Faroese: virðisminkan f, inflasjón f
• Finnish: inflaatio (fi)
• French: inflation (fr) f
• Georgian: ინფლაცია (inplacia)
• German: Inflation (de) f
• Greek: πληθωρισμός (el) m (plithorismós) (plithorismós)
• Gujarati: ફુગાવો (gu) m (phugāvo), મોંઘવારી f (moṅghvārī)
• Hebrew: אינפלציה (he) (inflátsya)
• Hindi: मुद्रास्फीति (hi) f (mudrāsphīti)
• Hungarian: infláció (hu)
• Icelandic: verðbólga f
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Indonesian: inflasi (id)
• Interlingua: inflation
• Irish: boilsciú (ga) m
• Italian: inflazione (it)
• Japanese: インフレ (ja) (infure), インフレーション (ja) (infurēshon)
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• Khmer: អតិផរណា (km) (ʼaʼtephaʼraʼnaa)
• Korean: 인플레이션 (inpeulleisyeon), 인플레 (inpeulle), 통화 팽창 (tonghwa paengchang) (通貨膨脹 (ko))
• Latvian: inflācija f
• Lithuanian: infliacija
• Maori: whakapikinga utu
• 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: инфля́ция (ru) f (infljácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инфлација f

  Roman: inflácija (sh) f

• Slovak: inflácia f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: inflacija f

• Spanish: inflación (es) f
• Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)
• Swedish: inflation (sv)
• Tagalog: pamamantog
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: enflasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфля́ція f (infljácija)
• Vietnamese: (sự) tăng giá
• Volapük: niflat
• Welsh: chwyddiant m
• Yiddish: אינפֿלאַציע f (inflatsye)

inflation of the universe

• Bulgarian: разширение (bg) n (razširenie)
• Dutch: uitdijing (nl) f
• Hungarian: tágulás
• Ido: inflacio (io)
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• Korean: 팽창 (ko) (paengchang) (膨脹 (ko))
• Russian: расшире́ние (ru) n (rasširénije)

References

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

Anagrams

• inflatino

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French

Etymology

From Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin inflātiō, inflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: inflations

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. (economics) inflation

Antonyms

• déflation

Related terms

• enfler
• enflure

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnflātiō.

Noun

inflation oblique singular, f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

• → English: inflation
• French: inflation