inflate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inflo, inflare, inflavi, inflatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
blow into/upon; puff out;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →inflatus, inflata -um, inflatior -or -us, inflatissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
inflated, puffed up; bombastic; turgid;
voc. sg. (m.)
Examples
- L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...irritat, hos in impotentiam, illos in luxuriam; hos inflat, illos mollit et totos resolvit. 'At bene aliquis illam..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...machina illam sustuli, hominem inter homines feci. At inflat se tanquam rana, et in sinum suum non spuit..."
