inflare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inflo, inflare, inflavi, inflatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
blow into/upon; puff out;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...cava per calamorum sibila primum agrestis docuere cavas inflare cicutas. inde minutatim dulcis didicere querellas, tibia quas fundit..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...corrugare nares", ut Horatius ait, et inflare et movere et digito inquietare et inpulso subito spiritu excutere..." - P
Ecloga V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Mopse, boni quoniam conuenimus ambo tu calamos inflare leuis, ego dicere uersus, hic corylis mixtas inter consedimus ulmos..."