Etymology

inflationary

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Today it means: Causing or liable to cause inflation. Full definition →

English inflation ← Old French inflation ← Latin īnflātiō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁-
  7. Proto-Italic*flāō
  8. Latinflō
  9. Latinīnflō
  10. Latinīnflātiō
  11. Old Frenchinflation
  12. Englishinflation
  13. English todayinflationary

From inflation + -ary.

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