Imbroglio: Difference between revisions
Created page with "==English== ===Etymology=== Borrowed from Italian [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imbroglio imbroglio] (“tangle, entanglement, muddle”), from ''imbrogliare'' (“to tangle”), related to French [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embrouiller embrouiller] (“to muddle, confuse”), from prefix ''en-/em-'' (“to cause”) + ''brouiller'' (“to mix up, confuse”). ===Transliteration=== * Katakana: イムブロウリョウ * Hangul: 임브로울료 ===Noun=== '''imbr..." |
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Borrowed from Italian [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imbroglio imbroglio] | Attested from 1750 meaning “a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jumble jumble]”; by 1818, “a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/complicated complicated] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misunderstanding misunderstanding], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intricate intricate] [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/entanglement entanglement]” (especially of persons or nations). | ||
Borrowed from Italian [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imbroglio imbroglio], from [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imbrogliare imbrogliare] (“to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confuse confuse], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tangle tangle]”), from an assimilated form of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in-#English in-] (“[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/into into], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in in], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on on], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upon upon]”), from Proto-Indo-European root [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/*en *en] (“in”), + [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brogliare brogliare] (“to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embroil embroil]”), probably from French [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brouiller brouiller] (“to [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confuse confuse]”; compare [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broil broil] and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embroil embroil]). | |||
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