spell

(Anglais)

Noun

1. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
2. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
3. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.

Verb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Verb

1. (intransitive, sometimes, transitive) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
3. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
4. (figuratively, transitive) To clarify; to explain in detail.
5. (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
6. To constitute; to measure.
7. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
8. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

Verb

1. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
2. (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
3. (colloquial, intransitive) To rest from work for a time.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spɛl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: spell

Hérité de ancien anglais: spell

Appartenant à allemand: Spill

Appartenant à islandais: spjall

Appartenant à albanais: fjalë

Hérité de moyen anglais: spellen

Appartenant à français: épeler

Hérité de ancien anglais: spellian

Hérité de moyen anglais: spelen

Hérité de ancien anglais: spelian

Appartenant à moyen anglais: spale

Appartenant à ancien anglais: spala

Hérité de moyen anglais: spele

In summary

From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).

Concepts

épeler

charme

sort

verset

écrire

✍️

moment

durée

ensorcellement

période

sortilège

maléfice

ensorceler

rédiger

formule magique

incantation

instant

enchantement

quoique

signifier

tandis

tandis que

tant

temps

⌚

tour

tourner

vouloir dire

voyage

continuation

envoûtement

épellation

laps de temps

orthographier

suite

tour-opérateur

transe

voyagiste

part

embellie

aller

bien que

comprendre

compter

🔢

continuité

désigner

développer

dire

🗣️

écrire à

expliquer

formuler

indiquer

Synonymes

charm

incantation

enchantment

curse

magic

🪄

sorcery

fascination

curses

period

hex

mean

magic spell

magical spell

verse

signify

witchcraft

trance

time

⌚

write

✍️

bewitch

exorcism

turn

term

spell out

season

moment

attraction

shift

denote

conjuration

while

fit

epoch

relieve

malediction

tour

replace

age

rest

substitute

patch

delusion

magic word

bout

lifetime

burst

letter

piece

imply

import