EuroLex/E/Trick

trick


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: n./cp. 1 'an action or scheme undertaken to fool, outwit, or deceive', 2 'an optical or other illusion', 3 'a special technique', 4b 'an unusual action learnt by an animal'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: trikk [th rihk], mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial) / trix [th rixs], 1930s, via Danish, meaning: 1,3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial); Romanian: < truc, the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French/Italian; Russian: < tryuc, the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French; Bulgarian: trik, beg20c, meaning: 1,2,3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Albanian: trik, beg20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: regional; Greek: trik, beg20c, meaning: 1,2,3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;

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