The story
- Latin · derived fromdēcipere“to cheat, mislead”
- Old French · derived fromdeceite
- Middle English · inherited fromdeceyte
- English todaydeceit
From Middle English deceyte, from Old French deceite, deçoite, from decevoir (“to deceive”), from Latin dēcipere (“to cheat, mislead”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.