English → Latin
“cheat” in Latin
fraudōto cheat, defraud, swindle; to deprive of; to embezzle a thing from a person, purloin, stealindūcōto lead, bring or conduct in or into somewhere; to bring forward, exhibit, represent; to bring into or before a courtcōnfingōto form, fashion, fabricate; to invent, devise, feign, pretendfallōto deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint; to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself; to escape the frauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harmēlūdōto finish play, cease to sport; to deceive, trick, fool, cheat, frustrate, delude; to escape, avoid, evade, dodge, shun,frūstrorto disappoint, frustrate, defraud, cheat, deceive with false hopes; to escape, elude; to baffle, evadecircumdūcōto lead or draw around; show around; to deceive, cheat, impose upon, mislead; to prolong, speak in a roundabout mannerfraudātiōThe act of cheating, deceiving or defrauding; deceit, fraud.dolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeance
The English word cheat itself goes back to Latin cadō, through *excadēre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cheat v.
fraudare (the proper word): firaudem or fallaciam alicui facere: inducere: dolum alicui nectere or confingere: fallere (also with fraude): imponere alicui: fraude or dolo capere: eludere: fucum facere alicui: alicui verba dare: frustrari: circumducere (comedy). [SYN. in DECEIVE]. To cheat anybody of anything, aliquem fraudare or defraudare aliqua re: of one’s money, aliquem circumducere or circumvertere argento; aliquem emungere argento: perfabricare aliquem (all in comedy): one’s creditors, fraudare creditores. To try to cheat anybody, fraudare aliquem tentare: fallaciam intendere in aliquem. I am cheated of my hopes, spes me fefellit, or frustrata est, or destituit.
cheat s.
fraus: fraudatio: dolus malus or dolus: circumscriptio: fallacia. (In plur., (The words are found in this connection and order), doli atque fallaciae): ars: artes: machinae. SYN. in DECEIT.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cheat?
- The usual Latin words for “cheat” are fraudō, indūcō, cōnfingō; also fallō, fraus, ēlūdō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.