# intrigue
## English
### Alternative forms

* entrigue

### Etymology

Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“I entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.

### Pronunciation

* (noun) enPR: ĭn'trēg, IPA: /ˈɪntɹiːɡ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (verb) enPR: ĭntrēg', IPA: /ɪnˈtɹiːɡ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːɡ

### Noun

intrigue (countable and uncountable, plural intrigues)
* A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
** 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
* The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
* Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
** 1773, The Westminster Magazine, Or, The Pantheon of Taste:I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped [pawned] his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]
** 1976, John Harold Wilson, Court Satires of the Restoration, page 245:In 1679 and 1680 there were persistent rumors of an intrigue between Mary, Lady Grey, and the Duke of Monmouth.

#### Derived terms

* palace intrigue

#### Translations
### Verb

intrigue (third-person singular simple present intrigues, present participle intriguing, simple past and past participle intrigued)
* (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
* (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
** 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
** 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106:These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
* (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
* (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
** 1533 (date written), Thomas More, “The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance […]. Chapter XVIJ.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 1004, column 2:And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.
** c. 1681, John Scott, The Christian Life from Its Beginning to Its Consummation in Glory […]:How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!

#### Translations
### Related terms

* intricacy
* intricate
* intriguer
* intriguery
* intriguing
* intriguingly

### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intrigue”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “intrigue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.tʁiɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Deverbal of intriguer.

#### Noun

intrigue f (plural intrigues)
* intrigue (all senses)
* in particular, plot (the course of a story)

##### Descendants

* → English: intrigue

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

intrigue
* inflection of intriguer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “intrigue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈtɾi.ɡi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈtɾi.ɡi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈtɾi.ɡe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩˈtɾi.ɡɨ/ [ĩˈtɾi.ɣɨ]

### Verb

intrigue
* inflection of intrigar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

intrigue
* inflection of intrigar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative