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inveigle

/ɪnˈveɪɡl̩/ verb

In Latin: pellicio Wiktionary

verb Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about inveigle at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.
    He palavered her into going along

Origin

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enveugler, alteration of aveugler (“to blind, to delude”), from Old French avogle (“without eyes”), from Late Latin ab oculīs (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”). The in- might be by analogy to variation between a- and en- in other French words, which was then latinised into in-. For the pronunciation with /iː/, compare the development of people; that with /eɪ/ is presumably a spelling pronunciation.

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