fraudulence

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dʰrew-“to mislead”
2. Latin · derived fromfraudulentia“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”
3. Old French · derived fromfraudulence
4. English todayfraudulence

From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”).