dolus
English
noun
Definitions
- (legal) Evil intent: malice or fraud.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dolus (deceit, fraud, trickery, guile, deception, ruse) derived from Ancient Greek δόλος (bait, trick, wile, ruse, deceit, deception).
Origin
Ancient Greek
δόλος
Gloss
bait, trick, wile, ruse, deceit, deception
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dolor Latin
- dolosus Latin
- dolus Latin
- dolēre, doleō Latin
- sedulus Latin
- subdolus Latin
- dolo Italian
- duolo Italian
- dol French
- dolo Spanish, Castilian
- duelo Spanish, Castilian
- δολερός Ancient Greek
- δόλιος Ancient Greek
- δόλος Ancient Greek
- ἄδολος Ancient Greek
- *del- Proto-Indo-European
- dol Old French
- duel Old French
- dol Catalan, Valencian
- dor Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- doo Old Portuguese
- dûl Friulian