fraus

English

Noun

fraus

1. plural of frau

Anagrams

• Raufs, fuars

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Catalan

Noun

fraus

1. plural of frau

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Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive, mislead”). See also Sanskrit ध्रुति (dhruti), द्रुह्यति (druhyati, “to deceive”), English dream.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /frau̯s/, [fräu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /frau̯s/, [fräu̯s]

Noun

fraus f (genitive fraudis); third declension

1. A cheating, deceit, guile, fraud.

   Synonyms: dēceptiō, maleficium, perfidia, dolus, stratēgēma, ars

2. A delusion, error.
3. bad or ill intent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fraus	fraudēs
Genitive	fraudis	fraudum fraudium
Dative	fraudī	fraudibus
Accusative	fraudem	fraudēs
Ablative	fraude	fraudibus
Vocative	fraus	fraudēs

Derived terms

• fraudātiō
• fraudātor
• fraudātōrius

• fraudō
• fraudulenter
• fraudulentia

• fraudulentus
• fraudulōsus
• frūstrā

Descendants

• Catalan: frau
• Italian: frode
• → Old French: fraude
  • Middle French: fraude
    • French: fraude
  • Norman: fraude
  • → Middle Dutch: fraude
    • Dutch: fraude
  • → Middle English: fraude
    • English: fraud
• → Portuguese: fraude
• → Romanian: fraudă
• → Spanish: fraude
• → Esperanto: fraŭdo
  • Ido: fraudo

References

• “fraus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fraus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fraus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fraud”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 277

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fraus

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of fryse

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fraus

1. past tense of frysa