insidious

Significat (Anglès)

  1. Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
  2. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
  3. (nonstandard) Treacherous.

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɪnˈsɪdi.əs/
Etimologia (Anglès)

From Middle French insidieux, from Latin īnsidiōsus (“cunning, artful, deceitful”), from īnsidiae (“a lying in wait, an ambush, artifice, stratagem”) + -ōsus, from īnsideō (“to sit in or on”), from in (“in, on”) + sedeō (“to sit”).

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