Etymograph

English

entice

Entice comes from Old French enticier ‘to stir up or excite’, from Vulgar Latin *intitiāre ‘I set on fire’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *tītjō ‘heating’.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tītjō‘heating’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtitiō‘firebrand (tool)’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*intitiāre‘I set on fire’reconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400enticier‘to stir up or excite’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500enticen
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2012entice

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tītjō‘heating’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtitiō‘firebrand (tool)’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*intitiāre‘I set on fire’reconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400enticier‘to stir up or excite’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500enticen
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2012entice

Earliest quotation: 2012, Brian Hayes, Pixels or Perish: “Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical…”

Every English word from Proto-Italic *tītjō

Today it means

verb To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *tītjō / entice

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