Etymograph

English

allect

Allect comes from Latin allectō ‘to allure, entice, encourage’, from alliciō ‘attract’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-1‘to give’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lakjō1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaciō1‘to entice, ensnare’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEalliciō1‘attract’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEallectō2as allectare‘to allure, entice, encourage’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1524allect2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin allecto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English allect
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1524, Thomas Wolsey: “[…] for conducing wherof theye cannot devyse a better…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-Wiktionary, Latin allecto‘to give’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*lakjōWiktionary, Latin allectoreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaciōWiktionary, Latin allecto‘to entice, ensnare’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEalliciōWiktionary, Latin allecto‘attract’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEallectōWiktionary, English allectas allectare‘to allure, entice, encourage’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1524allectWiktionary, English allect. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1524, Thomas Wolsey: “[…] for conducing wherof theye cannot devyse a better…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’

data, date, add, die, addition, rent, tradition, dose, surrender, donate, donation, donor, treason, vent, vendor, render, dow, rendition, additive, rendezvous, antidote, condone, dowry, anecdote, addendum, dowager, perdition, dative, endow, dower, dacha, dati, sconce, 38 more

through Latin laciō ‘to entice, ensnare’

delicious, delicate, delight, elicit, 7 more

Today it means

verb To allure; to entice; to sway.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “allect”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin allecto. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- / allect

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