dolus

Meaning

1. (declension-2, masculine) deception, deceit, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery
2. (declension-2, masculine) evil intent; malice; wrongdoing (with a view to the consequences)
3. (declension-2, masculine) device, artifice, strategem, trap

Concepts

deceit

guile

trickery

fraud

deception

deceptiveness

hoax

imposture

quibbling

sham

sophism

sophistry

stratagem

strategy

trap

🪤

treachery

ambush

a trap

astuteness

cheating

chicane

Synonyms

calumnia

fraudatio

fraus

strategema

sūtēla

stratēgēma

circumventiō

urbānitās

Translations

inganno

Betrug

tricherie

engaño

triquiñuela

bedriegerij

astuce

List

απάτη

Strategie

Arglist

Täuschung

إِسْتْرَاتِيجِيَّة

δόλος

Schwindel

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈdɔ.ɫʊs]

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁os. Cognate to Oscan [script needed] (dolom, “intention, ruse”) and Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos), but the Italic terms may be borrowings from the latter.