different between breath vs afflatus

English

Alternative forms

• breth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English breeth, breth, from Old English br?þ (“odor, scent, stink, exhalation, vapor”), from Proto-Germanic *br?þaz (“vapour, waft, exhalation, breath”) of unknown origin, perhaps from *g?wer- (“smell”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: brêth, IPA^(key): /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

breath (countable and uncountable, plural breaths)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of breathing.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. (countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

   • She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.

3. (uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.

4. (countable) A rest or pause.

5. A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.

6. (obsolete) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens

     the breath of flowers

7. (obsolete) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

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Verb

breath (third-person singular simple present breaths, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed)

1. Misspelling of breathe.

   In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.

See also

• exhalation
• inhalation
• respiration

Anagrams

• Bertha, bareth, bather, bertha

Irish

Noun 1

breath f (genitive singular breithe, nominative plural breitheanna)

1. Alternative form of breith (“birth; lay; bearing capacity; bringing, taking; seizing; catching, overtaking”)

Noun 2

breath f (genitive singular breithe, nominative plural breitheanna)

1. Alternative form of breith (“judgment, decision; injunction”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "breath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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