inflation

== 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 === (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən Hyphenation: in‧fla‧tion === Noun === inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations) An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang. ==== Antonyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: インフレーション (infurēshon) → Korean: 인플레이션 (inpeulleisyeon) ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== === Anagrams === inflatino == Danish == === Etymology === Via English, from Latin inflatio. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /enflaˈɕoˀn/ === Noun === inflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer) (economics) inflation ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “inflation” in Den Danske Ordbog == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin inflātiō. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/ Homophone: inflations === Noun === inflation f (plural inflations) (economics) inflation Antonym: déflation ==== Derived terms ==== inflationniste ==== Related terms ==== enfler enflure ==== Descendants ==== → Greek: πληθωρισμός (plithorismós) (calque) → Polish: inflacja→ Belarusian: інфля́цыя (infljácyja)→ Russian: инфляция (infljacija) (see there for further descendants)→ Ukrainian: інфля́ція (infljácija)→ Yiddish: אינפֿלאַציע (inflatsye)→ Hebrew: אינפלציה (inflátsya) → Romanian: inflație → Turkish: enflasyon === 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) (medicine) swelling ==== Descendants ==== French: inflation→ Greek: πληθωρισμός (plithorismós) (calque)→ Polish: inflacja→ Belarusian: інфля́цыя (infljácyja)→ Russian: инфляция (infljacija) (see there for further descendants)→ Ukrainian: інфля́ція (infljácija)→ Yiddish: אינפֿלאַציע (inflatsye)→ Hebrew: אינפלציה (inflátsya)→ Romanian: inflație→ Turkish: enflasyon → English: inflation→ Japanese: インフレーション (infurēshon)→ Korean: 인플레이션 (inpeulleisyeon) == Swedish == === Noun === inflation c (economics) inflation Antonym: deflation (figuratively) inflation (of academic grades) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hyperinflation ==== See also ==== stagflation === References === “inflation”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “inflation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “inflation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)