The corpus record — Latin

deceptio

deceptio · f

a deceiving, deception

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Where it lives

Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

dēceptio — Lewis & Short

dēceptio, ōnis, f.decipio,

I a deceiving, deception (late Lat.), Mart. Cap. 4 fin. al.; Cod. 11, 47, 6; Vulg. 1. Macc. 16, 17.—

II Deceitfulness: vitae, Vulg. Sap. 14, 21: divitiarum, id. Marc. 4, 19.

In the wild

deceptione Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.10.p6

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.