inflatus

English

Etymology

Latin . See inflate.

Noun

inflatus

1. A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     The divine breath that blows the nostrils out
     To ineffable inflatus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inflatus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• flutinas, saintful

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈflaː.tus/, [ĩːˈfɫ̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfla.tus/, [iɱˈfläːt̪us]

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