different between tempt vs allure

English

Etymology

From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tenere (“to hold”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /t?mpt/, /t?mt/
• Rhymes: -?mpt, -?mt

Verb

tempt (third-person singular simple present tempts, present participle tempting, simple past and past participle tempted)

1. (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

2. (transitive) To attract; to allure.

3. (transitive) To provoke something; to court.

Synonyms

• (provoke someone to do wrong): entice, fand, lure, pander, tease
• (attract; allure): beguile, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure
• (provoke something): foment, urge; see also Thesaurus:incite

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• tempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tempt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tempt at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latvian

Verb

tempt (tr., 1st conj., pres. tempju, temp, tempj, past tempu)

1. to gulp
2. to swill
3. to quaff

Conjugation

English

Etymology

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l(j)??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)

1. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
2. (dated) gait; bearing.
   • Harper's Magazine

     The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.

3. The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

Translations

Verb

allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)

1. (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Synonyms

• attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

Translations

Related terms

• lure

Anagrams

• Laurel, laurel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French allure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ly?.r?/
• Hyphenation: al?lu?re
• Rhymes: -y?r?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. air, pretension

Derived terms

• sterallure

French

Etymology

aller +? -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. appearance, look
2. speed, pace
3. angle of a boat from the wind
4. gait (of a horse)
5. chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)

Derived terms

• à toute allure

Descendants

• ? Dutch: allure

Further reading

• “allure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• la leur