sufflo Latin · revision 36728

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la flō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sufflō''' (present infinitive sufflāre, perfect active sufflāvī, supine sufflātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|flō|t2=to blow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan gives [[ine-pro|*bʰleh₁-|t=to blow]], with a query, as the root of [[m|la|flō]], and thinks it possible that [[m|la|sufflāmen|t=brake for wheeled vehicles]] is derived from this verb.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008) In the ''Stichus'' a piper is told to puff out his cheeks quickly and put the pipes back to his lips (''suffla celeriter tibi buccas'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was to puff up with air: Cato has veins that are swollen after food,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and Horace a frog puffing herself up to ask how big the beast was.^(OLD 2012) Plautus already used it of swelling with anger, ''se sufflare uxori'', to be furious with one's wife,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and Varro of being puffed up with gold, birth or learning;^(OLD 2012) Persius has it for saying something boastfully.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ It also meant to blow on something: Petronius mocks decrepit gladiators who would have fallen down if you had blown on them,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder speaks of a boy blowing on a dying fire,^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Martial of blowing on a cake with the cheeks.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of puffing someone up with pride.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of puffing out the cheeks and of swelling with rage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of swollen veins.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of being puffed up with pride.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a frog puffing herself up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of blowing on someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of puffing someone up with pride.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To puff up, [[m|en|inflate]], distend with air.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(reflexive or passive)'' To swell with [[m|en|rage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To puff up with pride; to say boastfully.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To [[m|en|blow]] on.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsufflō]]

+ * [[īnsufflō]]

+ * [[obsufflō]]

+ * [[sufflabilis]]

+ * [[sufflāmen]]

+ * [[sufflātiō]]

+ * [[sufflātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}