lacio

Meaning

to entice, ensnare

Synonyms

decipio

Translations

umgarnen

in die Falle locken

in einer Schlinge fangen

prendre au piège

🪤

coger en una trampa

kapanla yakalamak

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɫa.ki.oː]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of uncertain further origin. Possibly related to lacer (“torn, mangled”).
Prósper (2019, 30-4) argues it is from the zero-grade of *deh₃- (“to give”), with a semantic evolution of “‘fraud, deception’ (< ‘decoy, lure’ < ‘something offered to sight’)” (p. 33). For the sound change, compare lingua and lacrima.
Unused outside of glosses, reconstructed by grammarian Festus Grammaticus to explain its derivatives, see laqueus, lacessō and frequentative lactō.