# 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

* IPA: /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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.
    The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
* (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
* (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
    Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
* (economics) A decline in the value of money.
* 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

* deflation

#### Derived terms

* anti-inflation
* bottleneck inflation
* core inflation
* cost-push inflation
* counter-inflation
* credential inflation
* demand-pull inflation
* disinflation
* grade inflation
* greedflation
* greenflation
* hyperinflation
* inflatino
* Inflation
* inflationary
* inflationproof
* inflaton
* lifestyle inflation
* reinflation
* shrinkflation
* size inflation
* skimpflation
* stagflation
* superinflation
* taxonomic inflation
* tipflation
* Trumpflation
* wage-push inflation
* white inflation theory

#### Related terms

* conflation
* deflation
* inflate
* reflation

#### References

* ↑ Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, p. 57.

### Anagrams

* inflatino

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /enflaˈɕoˀn/

### Noun

inflation c (singular definite inflationen, plural indefinite inflationer)
* (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: /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: inflations

### Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)
* (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)
* (medicine) swelling

#### Descendants

* → English: inflation
* French: inflation

## Swedish
### Noun

inflation c
* (economics) inflation
    Antonym: deflation
* (figuratively) inflation (of academic grades)
    betygsinflationgrade inflation

#### Derived terms

* hyperinflation

#### See also

* stagflation

### References

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