The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδόλος“bait, ruse”
- Latin · borrowed fromdolus“deceit, trickery”
- English todaydolus
Borrowed from Latin dolus (“deceit, trickery”); akin to Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “bait, ruse”). Compare dolose, dolosity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.