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- Latin · borrowed fromīnsufflātus
- English todayinsufflate
First attested in 1670; borrowed from Latin īnsufflātus, perfect passive participle of īnsufflō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from in- + sufflō (“to blow on”). Cognate with French insuffler.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.