dolus.
trick, device, deceit, treachery, trickery, cunning, fraud;
Meaning & usage
deception, deceit, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery
evil intent; malice; wrongdoing (with a view to the consequences)
device, artifice, stratagem, trap
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Proto-Italic *dolos, from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁os m (“pain”). Cognate to Oscan dolom (“intention, ruse”) and Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos), but the Italic terms may be borrowings from the latter.
alternative form of dolor (“pain, grief”)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *doleō Latin doleō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin dolor Latin dolus From dolor via change of declension type, possibly first as a neuter of the same declension (tempus, temporis). Related to doleō (“to hurt, grieve”).
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