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allow
- /əˈlaʊ/
Rhymes with -aʊ
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin laus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin laudō
Latin allaudō
Old French aloer
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Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus
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Latin -ō
Latin locō
Latin allocō
Old French aloer
Anglo-Norman alouerbor.
Middle English allowen
English allow
From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaudāre, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). Doublet of allaud (via allaudāre) or allocate (via allocāre).
The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ālīefan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijaną (“to allow”) is unrelated.
verb allows · allowing · allowed · allow
- To let one have as a suitable share of something. to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest
- To present something as possible or reasonable. The event allows of only one interpretation.
- To permit, to give permission to. I will allow my son to be absent.
- To not bar or obstruct. Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.
- To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance. to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal
- To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. to allow a sum for leakage
- To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans. When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
- To render physically possible. The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
- To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers
- To sanction; to invest; to entrust. Therefore so please thee to return with us, And of our Athens—thine and ours—to take The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back Of Alcibiades the approaches wild, Who, like a boar too savage, doth ro
- To like; to be suited or pleased with. How allow you the model of these clothes?
- To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). to allow an objection
- To forgo bothering with, to let slide. Easy on violence, now I doubt it I could’ve banged this face but allowed it
