conflo Latin · revision 31868

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *bʰleh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkõː.fɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔɱ.flo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnflō''' (present infinitive cōnflāre, perfect active cōnflāvī, supine cōnflātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|flō|t2=to blow]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan tentatively traces [[m|la|flō]] to [[ine-pro|*bʰleh₁-|t=to blow]]; if it is related to [[m|la|fleō|t=to weep]], the root may have been without the aspirate, and how the present was formed is disputed.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who threatens to light a fire on a man's head.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to blow on a fire, start it or set something alight.^(OLD 2012) Of feelings it is to stir up, as Cicero's hatred stirred up against someone, and of events to bring about, usually something bad, though Terence says a great friendship often grows from a bad beginning.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of hatching sedition and of concocting a charge, and of making one thing out of two.^(OLD 2012) In metalwork it is to melt down or cast, as Propertius' gold of an image melted down and Varro's bars of silver and gold, and also to bring together an army or possessions, as Cicero's band of villains, and in Sallust to run up a debt.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “forge, melt, weld, refine, inflame, bring about”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|conflate]], from its past participle, first meant to cast from molten metal, in the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of lighting a fire.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a friendship brought about.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of casting bars of silver and gold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of stirring up hatred and gathering a band.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English [[m|en|conflate]], of casting metal.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To blow on a fire, [[m|en|kindle]], set alight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To stir up, [[m|en|arouse]] a feeling.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring about, cause; to hatch a conspiracy.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To invent, [[m|en|concoct]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To melt, melt down; to cast, [[m|en|forge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make by combining.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring together, assemble; to run up a debt.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnflātilis]]

+ * [[cōnflātiō]]

+ * [[cōnflātor]]

+ * [[cōnflātōrium]]

+ * [[conflatura]]

+ * [[reconflō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flo|alt=flō]]

+ * [[inflo|alt=īnflō]]

+ * [[sufflo|alt=sufflō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}