sufflātĭo

ōnis, f.

sufflo

I. a blowing or puffing up, inflation (Plinian): bullantium aquarum, Plin. 9, 7, 6, § 18: praedurum est sufflatione viventibus, id. 9, 29, 46, § 86.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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