different between conflation vs inflation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin conflatio, conflationem, from Latin conflatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fle???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conflation (countable and uncountable, plural conflations)

1. (countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
2. (uncountable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.

Related terms

• conflate

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin ?nfl?ti? (“expansion", "blowing up”), from ?nfl?tus, the perfect passive participle of ?nfl? (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + fl? (“blow”).Morphologically inflate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

inflation (plural inflations)

1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.

   The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

2. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
3. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Antonyms

• deflation

Derived terms

Related terms

• inflate
• conflation
• reflation

Translations

References

• (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.

Anagrams

• inflatino

French

Etymology

From Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin infl?ti?, infl?ti?nem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fla.sj??/
• Homophone: inflations

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. (economics) inflation

Antonyms

• déflation

Related terms

• enfler
• enflure

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nfl?ti?.

Noun

inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

• ? English: inflation
• French: inflation