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Conflate

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to combine two or more separate things, especially ideas or texts, into one
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Stage 1 of 3
flare
Latin · ancient
"to blow"
to blow, combined with com- (together)
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Stage 2 of 3
conflare
Latin · ancient
"to blow together, to fuse"
to blow together, to fuse, from com- and flare
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Stage 3 of 3
conflate
English · 1400s
"to combine two or more things into one"
settled as the English word for combining two or more things into one
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