The corpus record — Latin

deceptor

deceptor · m

a deceiver

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Where it lives

Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

dēceptor — Lewis & Short

dēceptor, ōris, m.id.,

I a deceiver (late Lat. for fraudator), Sen. Thyest. 140; Lact. de Ira, 4, 8; August. Serm. 362, 18.

In the wild

deceptor Seneca, Thyestes 1
deceptorem Tertullian, Adversus Praxean 11
deceptorum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 127.10

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.