different between aspiration vs afflatus

English

Etymology 1

aspire +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æsp???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural aspirations)

1. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).

   Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game.

Derived terms

• aspirational
• aspirationalism
• aspirationalist

Translations

Etymology 2

From aspirate +? -ion or borrowed from Latin aspiratio, aspirationem.

Noun

aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural aspirations)

1. The action of aspirating.
2. (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

Derived terms

• aspirational
• preaspiration

Translations

Further reading

• aspiration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aspiration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Danish

Noun

aspiration c (singular definite aspirationen, plural indefinite aspirationer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “aspiration” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspiratio, aspirationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.pi.?a.sj??/

Noun

aspiration f (plural aspirations)

1. aspiration

Related terms

• aspirer

Further reading

• “aspiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin affl?tus (“a breath, an act of breathing out or breathing upon; breeze, gust of air, vapour, wind; inspiration”), from affl?re (from affl? (“to blow, to breathe”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + fl? (“to blow, to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix producing an action noun from a verb”). The related Latin word adfl?t? was first used in the “inspiration” sense by the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero (106–43 B.C.E.) in De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods, 44 B.C.E.), book II, section 167.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??fle?t?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??fle?t?s/, /-??s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s
• Hyphenation: af?fla?tus

Noun

afflatus (plural afflatuses)

1. A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.

Synonyms

• afflation

Related terms

• afflate
• deflate, deflation
• flatulence, flatus
• inflate, inflation

Translations

References

Further reading

• afflatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of affl? (“I blow, breathe (on or towards)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?af.fla.tus/, [?äf???ät??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?af.fla.tus/, [??f?l?t?us]

Noun

affl?tus m (genitive affl?t?s); fourth declension

1. breath (directed upon some object)
2. (poetry, religion) afflation (from an inspiring spirit from an unknown source in Cicero; from a divine spirit in a pagan context or from the Holy Spirit in later Christian contexts)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Participle

affl?tus (feminine affl?ta, neuter affl?tum); first/second-declension participle

1. blown, breathed on, having been blown or breathed on

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

• afflatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• afflatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette