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Latin
Etymology
From fraus (“fraud, deceit”) + -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fraudulentus (feminine fraudulenta, neuter fraudulentum, adverb fraudulenter); first/second-declension adjective
- deceitful, fraudulent
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.12.17:
- Quī quod nōvit loquitur, index iūstitiae est: quī autem mentītur testis est fraudulentus.
- He that speaketh that which he knoweth, sheweth forth justice: but he that lieth, is a deceitful witness. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- dishonest, false
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “fraudulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fraudulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fraudulentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.