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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la flō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ĩːˈfɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [iɱˈflat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnflātiō''' ''f'' (genitive īnflātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[īnflō]] “to blow into, inflate” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cicero, of flatulence.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In medicine it meant distention of the stomach or intestines with gas, flatulence, as in Cicero, and in Vitruvius expansion, swelling, as of boiling water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant pride.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for distension by air.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''hinchazón'' “swelling”, and gave [[en|inflation]] in the mid-14th century, “swelling caused by wind in the body; flatulence”, and figuratively pride.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of flatulence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of boiling water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''inflation'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(medicine)'' [[m|en|flatulence|alt=Flatulence]], distension.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Swelling, expansion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Pride.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[īnflō]]

+ * [[flō]]

+ * [[en|inflation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}