inflatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īnflō (“inflate, blow into”).

Pronunciation

Participle

īnflātus (feminine īnflāta, neuter īnflātum, adverb īnflātē); first/second-declension participle

  1. inflated, having been blown into
  2. (of a wind instrument) having been played
  3. puffed up, having become swollen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative īnflātus īnflāta īnflātum īnflātī īnflātae īnflāta
genitive īnflātī īnflātae īnflātī īnflātōrum īnflātārum īnflātōrum
dative īnflātō īnflātae īnflātō īnflātīs
accusative īnflātum īnflātam īnflātum īnflātōs īnflātās īnflāta
ablative īnflātō īnflātā īnflātō īnflātīs
vocative īnflāte īnflāta īnflātum īnflātī īnflātae īnflāta

Descendants

  • English: inflate
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: inchado
  • Portuguese: inchado, inflado
  • Italian: enfiato, infiato

References

  • “inflatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inflatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inflatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • inspired: divino quodam spiritu inflatus or tactus
    • (ambiguous) a bombastic style: inflatum orationis genus
    • (ambiguous) to be proud, arrogant by reason of something: inflatum, elatum esse aliqua re
    • (ambiguous) to be puffed up with pride: insolentia, superbia inflatum esse
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