lure
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): , /l(j)ʊə/, /lɔː/, /lɜː/
- (US) IPA(key): , /lʊəɹ/, /lɝ/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): , /lʉːɹ/
- Homophones: , lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger); law (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
- Rhymes: , -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]lure (plural lures)
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
- How many have with a smile made small account
Of Beauty and her lures
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 222:
- My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.
- A velvet smoothing brush.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]
|
|
|
Verb
[edit]lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)
- (transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
- Synonym: entice
- 2012, Kate Bassett, “Mid-Seventies Onwards: Operatic beginnings and The Body in Question”, in In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, London: Oberon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 219:
- It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
- 2014, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, What is the difference between a research professor and a professor?:
- Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!
- (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
- (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
|
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]lure (plural lures)
References
[edit]- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Lure”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lure
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Low German luren.
Verb
[edit]lure (imperative lur, present tense lurer, passive lures, simple past lurte, past participle lurt, present participle lurende)
References
[edit]- “lure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lure
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]lure (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)
- Alternative form of lura
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”).
Noun
[edit]lure oblique singular, f (oblique plural lures, nominative singular lure, nominative plural lures)
- lure (bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk)
Descendants
[edit]- English: lure
References
[edit]- lure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- “lure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Luder”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ʊə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ʊə(ɹ)/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Fishing
- en:Falconry
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms borrowed from Icelandic
- English terms derived from Icelandic
- en:Musical instruments
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål adjective forms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Middle Low German
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk adjective forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Old French terms derived from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns