inveigle

Significado (Inglês)

  1. (transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
  2. (transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To fool, to delude, to blind in judgement.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To ensnare, to entangle.

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ɪnˈveɪɡl̩/
Etimologia (Inglês)

Early corruption of French aveugler (“to blind, to delude”), from French aveugle (“blind”), from the Old French avugle (“without eyes”), from Late Latin ab oculīs (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”). The in- might be from other a-/en- variations found in Middle English, which were then latinised into in-.

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