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English

Verb

doles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dole

Anagrams

• Delos, Deols, Ledos, OLEDs, dosel, lodes, losed, soled

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dole, dolent

Verb

doles

1. second-person singular present indicative of doler
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of doler

Latin

Verb

dol?s

1. second-person singular present active indicative of dole?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolus (“deceit, trickery”); akin to Ancient Greek ????? (dólos, “bait, ruse”). Compare dolose, dolosity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?l?s/

Noun

dolus (uncountable)

1. (law) Evil intent: malice or fraud.

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Related terms

• dolose
• dolosity

References

• dolus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Sudol, louds, ludos

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?do.lus/, [?d?????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?do.lus/, [?d???lus]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (dólos, “deception, trick”), and attested in Classical Latin.

Noun

dolus m (genitive dol?); second declension

1. trickery, deception, deceit, guile
2. evil intent; malice; wrongdoing (with a view to the consequences)
3. device, artifice

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• dol?sus
• subdolus

Related terms

• dol?s?
• dol?sit?s

Descendants

Etymology 2

Probably a separate and unrelated term from the above, instead deriving from dolor (“pain”).

Noun

dolus ? (unknown declension)

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) pain, grief

Related terms

• cordolium

Descendants

References

• dolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dolus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle Irish

Etymology

do- +? lés (compare solus, from Old Irish solus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?olus?/

Adjective

dolus

1. lightless, obscure

Descendants

• Irish: dolas

Mutation

Further reading

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