different between almude vs allude

English

Etymology

Portuguese almude or Spanish almud, a measure of grain or dry fruit, from Arabic ????? (mudd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æl?mu?d(?)/

Noun

almude (plural almudes)

1. (historical) An old liquid measure.

Usage notes

• In Portugal the Lisbon almude was about 4.4 US gallons, and the Oporto almude about 6.6. In Turkey the almud was about 1.4 gallons.

Translations

Anagrams

• alumed, maudle, mauled

Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (mudd).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw?mudi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a??muð?/

Noun

almude m (plural almudes)

1. almude (old liquid measure)

English

Etymology

From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?d/

Verb

allude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)

1. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

     These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

   • 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

     It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Derived terms

• allusive
• allusion

Related terms

• delude
• elude
• illude

Translations

References

• allude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “allude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

See also

• hark back
• hearken back

Anagrams

• aludel

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

allude

1. third-person singular present indicative of alludere

Anagrams

• duella

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al?lu?.de/, [äl??l?u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/, [?l?lu?d??]

Verb

all?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of all?d?