Other forms: enticed, enticing, entices
To entice is to tempt someone by offering something delightful. Entice customers, enticed away, an enticing offer.
The offer is pleasant, which separates enticing from forcing or tricking — you entice with a reward. It is standard in commerce and in poaching staff from a rival. Note enticement; and that the word comes from a Vulgar Latin verb meaning to set on fire, from a word for a firebrand, so enticing was once kindling somebody.
1verbenticeTo tempt someone by offering something delightful.
“The shop enticed customers inside with the smell of freshly baked bread.”
entice is a tempting.
Also accepted in games: lure
Old French enticier comes from a Vulgar Latin form meaning to set on fire, from titio, a firebrand.
Proto-Indo-European
*teih₁- — to become hot, melt or to end
Proto-Italic
*tītjō — heating
Vulgar Latin
*intitiāre — I set on fire
Old French
enticier — to stir up or excite
Middle English
enticen
English, today
entice
From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō, from Proto-Italic tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA