English
afflation
Afflation comes from Latin afflare ‘to blow or breathe on’, and goes back to flō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflō1as flare‘to blow’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflare1‘to blow or breathe on’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflatus1past participle of afflare
- Englishearliest quotation 1816afflation1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English afflation
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1816, The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New 8th - Vo: “These Memoirs are introduced by a Preface written by…”.
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflōWiktionary, English afflationas flare‘to blow’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflareWiktionary, English afflation‘to blow or breathe on’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEafflatusWiktionary, English afflationpast participle of afflare
- Englishearliest quotation 1816afflationWiktionary, English afflation. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1816, The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New 8th - Vo: “These Memoirs are introduced by a Preface written by…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to blow’
blow, blast, bliss, bladder, flux, fluent, feeble, fluency, confluence, blithely, fluvial, blare, bleat, blather, 44 more
through Latin flō ‘to blow’
Today it means
noun A blowing or breathing on.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “afflation”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Latin flō / afflation