dolus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin dolus (“deceit, trickery”); akin to Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “bait, ruse”). Compare dolose, dolosity.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dolus (countable and uncountable, plural doli)
- (law) Evil intent: malice or fraud.
- 1849, James G. Butler, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:
- Every actual delict presupposes a dolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “dolus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdo.lus/, [ˈd̪ɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.lus/, [ˈd̪ɔːlus]
Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁os. Cognates include Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos).[1]
Noun
[edit]dolus m (genitive dolī); second declension
- deception, deceit, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery
- Synonyms: dēceptiō, perfidia, fraus, maleficium, stratēgēma, ars
- evil intent; malice; wrongdoing (with a view to the consequences)
- device, artifice, strategem, trap
Usage notes
[edit]The phrase dolum faciō means "to trick."
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dolus | dolī |
Genitive | dolī | dolōrum |
Dative | dolō | dolīs |
Accusative | dolum | dolōs |
Ablative | dolō | dolīs |
Vocative | dole | dolī |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants of dolus
Etymology 2
[edit]Probably a separate and unrelated term from the above, instead deriving from doleō (“to hurt, grieve”) and dolor (“pain”).
Noun
[edit]dolus m (genitive dolī); second declension (Late Latin)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: duolo
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
[edit]- “dolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dolus 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)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- by craft: per dolum (B. G. 4. 13)
- by the aid of fraud and lies: dolis et fallaciis (Sall. Cat. 11. 2)
- by craft: per dolum (B. G. 4. 13)
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]do- + lés (compare solus, from Old Irish solus).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dolus
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: dolas
Mutation
[edit]Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
dolus | dolus pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ndolus |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dolus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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