defalcate
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
1530s, in sense “to lop off”, from Medieval Latin dēfalcātus, perfect passive participle of dēfalcō (“cut or lop off”),[1] from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”),[2] from which also English falcate (“sickle-shaped”).
[edit] Verb
defalcate (third-person singular simple present defalcates, present participle defalcating, simple past and past participle defalcated)
- (transitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
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embezzle
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- ^ “defalcate” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- ^ “defalcation” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
[edit] Italian
[edit] Verb form
defalcate
