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Definitions and meaning of spell

spell

Pronunciation

• enPR: spĕl, IPA^(key): /spɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).

Noun

spell (plural spells)

1. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: cantrip, incantation

2. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. [from 16th c.]

   Synonym: cantrip
3. (obsolete) Speech, discourse. [8th–15th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spell (third-person singular simple present spells, present participle spelling, simple past and past participle spelled)

1. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
   • 1697, John Dryden (translator), Georgics, Book 3 in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109, lines 444-446,^[2]

     This, gather’d in the Planetary Hour,

     With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r

     Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English spellen, from Anglo-Norman espeler, espeleir, Old French espeller, espeler (compare Modern French épeler), from Frankish *spelōn, merged with native Old English spellian (“to tell, speak”), both eventually from Proto-Germanic *spellōną (“to speak”). Related with etymology 1. The sense “indicate a future event” probably in part a backformation from forespell (literally “to tell in advance”).

Verb

spell (third-person singular simple present spells, present participle spelling, simple past and past participle spelled or (mostly UK) spelt)

2. (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. [from 16th c.]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. [from 14th c.]
4. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word). [from 19th c.]
5. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail. [from 20th c.]
6. (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun. [from 19th c.]

7. To constitute; to measure.
8. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim. [9th–16th c.]
9. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
   • 1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278,^[5]

     As thro’ the caverns dim I wind,

     Might I that legend find,

     By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,

Synonyms

• (to indicate that some event will occur): forebode; mean; signify
• (to compose a word): (informal) comprise

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Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).

Verb

spell (third-person singular simple present spells, present participle spelling, simple past and past participle spelled or spelt)

1. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).

   to spell the helmsman

2. (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

   They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.

3. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.

Derived terms

• spell off

Translations

Noun

spell (plural spells)

1. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour. [from 16th c.]
2. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity). [from 18th c.]
3. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance. [from 18th c.]
4. A period of rest; time off. [from 19th c.]
5. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc. [from 19th c.]
6. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Welsh: sbel

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:spell.

Etymology 4

From Middle English spel (“a thin piece of wood”), from Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

spell (plural spells)

1. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
2. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Derived terms

• northern spell

Anagrams

• Pells, pells

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛtl/

Noun

spell n (genitive singular spels, plural spell)

1. pity, shame
   • stór spell

     big shame

   • tað var spell

     it was a pity

   • spell var í honum

     it was too bad for him

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb spelle.

Noun

spell n (definite singular spellet, indefinite plural spell, definite plural spella or spellene)

1. Alternative form of spill

See also

• spel (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

spell

1. imperative of spelle

Old English

Alternative forms

• spel

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *spell, from Proto-Germanic *spellą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spell/, [speɫ]

Noun

spell n

1. story
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

   • late 9th century, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan

2. news
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

3. prose or a work of prose
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

4. argument
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

Usage notes

• Spell and racu mean an argument as in a line of reasoning. For the sense "a debate, dispute, quarrel," ġeflit is used.

Declension

Antonyms

• lēoþ (“poem”)
• lēoþcræft (“poetry”)

Derived terms

• bīspell (“parable”)
• ealdra cwēna spell (“old wives' tale”)
• godspell (“gospel”)
• lēasspell (“fiction”)
• sārspell (“painful story”)
• sōþspell (“nonfiction”)
• spellian (“to talk”)
• wēaspell (“tale of woe”)
• wilspell (“welcome news”)

Descendants

• Middle English: spell, spel
  • English: spell