Prefixation in English and Catalan - Departament de Filologia ...

Enthuse 1 If you enthuse about something, you talk about it in a way that shows how
excited and thrilled you are about it. Be or make enthusiastic. David enthuses about the
taste, fragrance and character of Provencal cuisine.
ORIGIN: back-formation from enthusiasm.
Thuse: non-existing.
Entice To entice someone to go somewhere or to do something means to try to
persuade them to go to that place or to do that thing.
Derivative: enticement.
ORIGIN ME: from OFr. enticier, probably from a base meaning ‘set on fire’, based on
an alteration of Latin titio ‘firebrand’.
Tice: non-existing.
Entrammel (trammel) poetic/literary Entangle.
ORIGIN: not given.
Trammel (n.) poetic/literary Restrictions or impediments to freedom of action.
Trammel (v.) Constrain or impede.
ORIGIN ME: from OFr. tramail ’a kind of net’, from a medieval L. variant of
trimaculum, perhaps from L. tri- ‘three’ + macula ‘mesh, spot’.
Entwine (twine) 1 If one thing is entwined with another thing, or if you entwine two
things, the two things are twisted around each other. He entwined his fingers with hers.
Facing each other, the giraffes were managing to entwine their necks in the most
astonishing manner …with silk ribbons and flowers entwined in their hair. 2 If two
things entwine or are entwined, they closely resemble or are linked to each other, and
they are difficult to separate or identify. The book entwines the personal and the
political to chart the history of four generations of the family. Once, years ago, he told
me our lives should entwine.
Derivative: entwinement.
ORIGIN: not given.
Twine (n.) 1 Twine is strong string used especially in gardening and farming.
ORIGIN OE: twīn ‘thread, linen’, from the Gmc base of twi- ‘two’ (with reference to
the number of strands).
Twine (v.) If you twine one thing around another, or if one thing twines around
another, the first thing is twisted o wound around the second. He twined his fingers into
hers.
ORIGIN: alteration of Scots twin, from ME twinnen, from twin ‘double’.
Enure variant spelling of inure.
Inure (usually be inured to) Accustom to something, especially something unpleasant.
Derivative: inurement.
ORIGIN ME: inure, enure, from an Anglo-Norman Fr. phrase meaning ‘in use or
practice’, from en- ‘in’ + OFr. euvre ‘work’ (from L. opera).
Ure: non-existent.
Envelop If one thing envelops another, it covers or surrounds it completely. Wrap up,
or surround completely. That lovely, rich fragrant smell of the forest enveloped us.
ORIGIN ME: from OFr. envoluper, from en- ‘in’ + a second element of unknown origin
(also found in develop).
Derivative: envelopment.
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