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Elude

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to skillfully escape, avoid, or evade something
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Stage 1 of 2
eludere
Latin · ancient
"to escape by trick"
to escape by trick, to play out, from ex- (out) and ludere (to play)
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Stage 2 of 2
elude
English · 1530s
"to escape or avoid something skillfully"
settled as the English word for escaping or avoiding something skillfully
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