guile

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡaɪl/ Rhymes: -aɪl Hyphenation: guile ==== Noun ==== guile (countable and uncountable, plural guiles) (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled) To deceive, beguile, bewile. ===== Derived terms ===== beguile guileful guileless ===== Related terms ===== wile ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Variant forms. ==== Noun ==== guile Obsolete form of gold. Alternative form of gyle. === References === == Old French == === Etymology === From Frankish *wīl, from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). === Noun === guile oblique singular, f (oblique plural guiles, nominative singular guile, nominative plural guiles) trickery; deception ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: guile, guille → English: guile === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “guile”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.