wile

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

Verb

To entice or lure.

Verb

Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

Concepts

ruse

artifice

leurre

leurrer

tenter

trahison

allécher

acompte

acoquiner

affriander

affrioler

aguicher

escroquerie

tricherie

appâter

attirer

Synonymes

trick

artifice

stratagem

ruse

guile

trickery

deception

deceit

craftiness

subterfuge

craft

cunning

allure

lure

maneuver

chicane

entice

chicanery

feint

pretence

wiliness

shenanigan

manoeuvre

perfidy

plan

play

plot

quirk

ruff

seduce

shrewdness

sleight

slyness

snare

strategem

strategy

stunt

tactics

tempt

thaumaturgy

treacherousness

trickiness

trump

twist

wheeze

trickishness

archness

artfulness

bait

beguilement

Traductions

τέχνασμα

πανουργία

γοητεύω

desise

list

astucia

δόλος

πονηριά

εξαπατώ

List

κόλπο

ξεμυαλίζω

κοροϊδεύω

düzen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/waɪl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à islandais: vél

Appartenant à néerlandais: wijle

In summary

From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.