Etymology

fraud

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Today it means: The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. Full definition →

Old French fraude ← Latin fraus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfraus“deceit, injury, offence”
  2. Old French · derived fromfraude
  3. English todayfraud

Inherited from Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchfraude all →

fraudfeasor

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.