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Allude

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to suggest or refer to something without mentioning it directly
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Stage 1 of 2
alludere
Latin · ancient
"to play with, to refer to indirectly"
to play with, to refer to indirectly, from ad- (to) and ludere (to play)
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Stage 2 of 2
allude
English · 1500s
"to refer to something indirectly"
settled as the English word for referring to something indirectly
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