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insufflare
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnsufflāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
insufflàre (first-person singular present insùfflo, first-person singular past historic insufflài, past participle insufflàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, Christianity) to blow (the breath) [with su ‘on a catechumen, person being baptized, etc.’]
- (intransitive) to blow [with in ‘into/on a balloon, a wind instrument, etc.’] [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive, medicine) to insufflate (oxygen, etc.) [with in ‘into’]
- (transitive, figurative, rare) to inspire, to arouse (vigor, hate, doubt, suspicion, etc.)
Conjugation
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Latin
Verb
īnsufflāre
- inflection of īnsufflō:
Verb
īnsufflāre
- inflection of īnsufflō:
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