English → Latin
“trickery” in Latin
dolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeancearsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemmāchinacontrivance; war machine, military engine, siege engine; scaffoldfrauscheating, deceit, deception, fraud, guile, stratagem, trick, treachery, wiles; delusion, error; injury, hurt, harm
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
trickery
dolus: dolus malus: doli atque fallaciae: ars: artes, plur.; machinae: fraus. SYN. in DECEIT.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for trickery?
- The usual Latin words for “trickery” are dolor, ars, māchina; also fraus. 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.