Borrowed fromLatindolus(“deceit, trickery”); akin toAncient Greekδόλος(dólos,“bait, ruse”). Comparedolose,dolosity.

• (UK)IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊləs/
• (US)IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊləs/
• Rhymes:-əʊləs

dolus (countable anduncountable,pluraldoli)

1. (law)Evilintent:malice orfraud.
   • 1849, James G. Butler,A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:

     Every actual delict presupposes adolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense

• dolose
• dolosity
• dolus specialis

• “dolus”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• Sudol,louds,ludos

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈdɔ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɔː.lus]

FromProto-Indo-European*dolh₁os. Cognate toOscan[script needed](dolom,“intention, ruse”) andAncient Greekδόλος(dólos),^[1] but the Italic terms may be borrowings from the latter.

dolus m (genitivedolī);second declension

1. deception,deceit,fraud,guile,treachery,trickery

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

   • 166BCE,Publius Terentius Afer,Andria582–584:

     SĪMŌ: Ego dūdum nōn nihil veritūs sum, Dāve, abs tē, nē facerēs īdem / quod volgus servōrum soletdolīs: ut mē dēlūderēs / proptereā quod amat fīlius.

     SIMO: For a long time, I have feared not a little from you, Davus, lest you do the same thing that the common run of slaves usually doeswith [their]trickery: that you would deceive me just because my son is in love.
     (Clever slaves who fool unwary masters was a common trope in ancient comedy.)

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid1.130:

     Nec latuēredolī frātrem Iūnōnis et īrae.

     Nor was [her] brother [Neptune] unawareof the deceit and wrath of Juno.

2. evilintent;malice;wrongdoing (with a view to the consequences)
3. device,artifice,strategem,trap

The phrasedolum faciō means "to trick."

Second-declension noun.

• dolōsus
• subdolus

• dolōsē
• dolōsitās

Fromdolor, dolōris via change of declension type, possibly first as a neuter of the same declension (tempus, temporis). Related todoleō(“to hurt, grieve”).

dolus m (genitivedolī);second declension(Late Latin)

1. alternative form ofdolor(“pain,grief”)

• cordolium

• “dolus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dolus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • by craft:per dolum (B. G. 4. 13)
    
  • by the aid of fraud and lies:dolis et fallaciis (Sall. Cat. 11. 2)
    

do- +‎lés (comparesolus, fromOld Irishsolus).

• IPA^(key): (earlier)/ˈd̪ˠolus/,(later)/ˈd̪ˠoləs/

dolus

1. lightless,obscure

• Irish:dolas

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dolus”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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