Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.
From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”). See also al-.
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- Borrowed-form mentionalluderfrm
- Derivation mentionalluderela
- Word-formation componental-#Etymology_2en
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