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- Latin · derived fromstellionatus“cozenage, trickery”
- English todaystellionate
From Latin stellionatus (“cozenage, trickery”), from stellio (“a newt, a crafty, knavish person”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stellionate
Today it means: Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc. Full definition →
Latin stellionatus