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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *bʰleh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈflɔː]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flō''' (present infinitive flāre, perfect active flāvī, supine flātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ine-pro|*bʰleh₁-|t=to blow]], perhaps through Proto-Italic *flāō.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan relates it to [[fleō]] “to weep”, and discusses how the present stem arose; separating the two would leave the /ē/ of Germanic unexplained.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[goh|blāen|t=to blow]], [[got|𐌱𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌰𐌽|tr=blesan|t=to blow]] and [[en|blow]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was of winds to blow, as Cato's west wind, of people to breathe out or blow, and of bombastic speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was to play on a pipe, and in metalwork to blow air on molten metal, as in Vitruvius' casting of lead.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of breathing out flames.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Its derivatives gave English ''inflate'', from ''īnflāre'', and ''flatulent'', from ''flātus''.^(Etymonline) English ''blow'' is a cognate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of the west wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of blowing on lead being cast.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''inflate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of winds, to [[m|en|blow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To breathe out, blow; to speak bombastically.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To play (a pipe or a tune).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To blow air on (metal being cast).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[afflō]]

+ * [[circumflō]]

+ * [[cōnflō]]

+ * [[dēflō]]

+ * [[difflō]]

+ * [[flābilis]]

+ * [[flābrum]]

+ * [[flāmen]]

+ * [[flamentum]]

+ * [[flātilis]]

+ * [[flātiō]]

+ * [[flātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fleō]]

+ * [[en|inflate]]

+ * [[en|flatulent]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}