inflation

English Online Dictionary. What means inflation‎? What does inflation mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: in‧fla‧tion

Noun

inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)

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

2. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
3. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.

4. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

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Translations

References

Anagrams

• inflatino

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enflaˈɕoˀn/

Noun

inflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer)

1. (economics) inflation

Declension

Further reading

• “inflation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
• Homophone: inflations

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. (economics) inflation

   Antonym: déflation

Related terms

• enfler
• enflure

Further reading

• “inflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnflātiō.

Noun

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

1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

• → English: inflation
• French: inflation

Swedish

Noun

inflation c

1. (economics) inflation

   Antonym: deflation

2. (figuratively) inflation (of academic grades)

Declension

Derived terms

• hyperinflation

See also

• stagflation

References

• inflation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• inflation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• inflation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)