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English
Noun
fraus
- plural of frau
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Noun
fraus
- plural of frau
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive, mislead”), with an uncertain phonetic development. However see also Sanskrit ध्रुति (dhruti, “deception”), द्रुह्यति (druhyati, “to deceive”) and Younger Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬝 (drāuuaiiāt̰, “will deceive”), which (along with perhaps Proto-Germanic *draumaz (“dream”)) point to Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew-, which would have been extended as *dʰrew-d⁽ʰ⁾- at some point before Latin and also as *dʰrew-gʰ- in PIE times.
Pronunciation
Noun
fraus f (genitive fraudis); third declension
- cheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles
- Synonyms: dēceptiō, maleficium, perfidia, dolus, stratēgēma, ars
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.675:
- “Mē fraude petēbās?”
- (Literally) “ me you are aiming at with deceit?”
(The emphatic position of “me” conveys Anna’s emotional response to Dido’s impending death. Translations – Mackail, 1885: “Was my summons a snare?”; Knight, 1956: “You planned to deceive me!”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “Did you plan this fraud for me?”; West, 1990: “It was all to deceive your sister!”; Ahl, 2007: “Your fraud had me as its target?”; Bartsch, 2020: “You wanted to trick me?”)
- delusion, error
- injury, hurt, harm
- Synonyms: damnum, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, noxa, vulnus
- bad or ill intent
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “fraus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fraus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fraus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “fraud”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 277
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fraus, -dis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 240
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fraus
- (non-standard since 2005) past tense of fryse
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
fraus
- past tense of frysa