insufflate

Meanings

1. To breathe or blow into or on.
2. To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
3. To inhale (a powder etc.).
4. To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

Etymology

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.