different between forger vs fraud

English

Etymology

From Middle English forger, forgere, from Old French forgiere; equivalent to forge +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d??(?)

Noun

forger (plural forgers)

1. A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter.
2. A person who forges metals.

Related terms

• forgery

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French forger, forgier, from Latin fabric?re, present active infinitive of fabric?. Doublet of fabriquer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.?e/

Verb

forger

1. To fashion metal with fire and a hammer, to forge.
2. To forge, falsify.
3. (figuratively) To create, to conceive, to make up.
4. (equestrianism) To trot.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written forge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

• c'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron
• forgeron

Related terms

• forge

Further reading

• “forger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• forgar, forgere, forgeour

Etymology

From Old French forgiere; equivalent to forgen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?rd??r(?)/, /f?r?d???r/, /f??r-/

Noun

forger (plural forgers)

1. creator, maker, fabricator
2. (rare) metalworker, smith

Descendants

• English: forger

References

• “f??r?er, -?r, -e?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fabrico.

Verb

forger

1. Alternative form of forgier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /d?/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???d/
• (US) enPR: frôd, IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: fr?d, IPA^(key): /f??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds)

1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
4. A person who performs any such trick.
5. (obsolete) A trap or snare.

Synonyms

• swindle
• scam
• (criminal) deceit
• trickery
• hoky-poky
• imposture
• (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
• grift

Related terms

• defraud
• fraudulence
• fraudulent
• fraudulently
• fraudulentness
• insurance fraud
• mail fraud
• pious fraud
• wire fraud

Translations

Verb

fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)

1. (obsolete) To defraud

Translations

See also

• embezzlement
• false billing
• false advertising
• forgery
• identity theft
• predatory lending
• quackery
• usury
• white-collar crime

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fraud f

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau